- Date
- May 28, 1988, 08:10 local (15:10 UTC)
- Place
- Sonoma, CA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4139YBellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880528024119A
- Case key
- 26015
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Failure to adequately supervise the flight and recover from the student pilot's bounced landing.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentCause
Supervision - inadequateCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Nose over
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4139Y
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1248-78
- Airframe hours
- 2,458
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Provest, Christopher, doing business as Aero Schellville
- Registered owner
- Prevost, Christopher D
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 4, 1987
- Departed
- 0Q3
- Airport
- 0Q3 · Sonoma Valley, runway 16, 2,200 × 65 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 26
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 818 total · 35 in this make and model · 786 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.