- Date
- August 22, 1989, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Paula, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1119EBellanca 8KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890822031109A
- Case key
- 26483
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Probable cause
Failure of the instructor pilot to adequately supervise the conduct of the flight and to take timely and effective corrective action to the student's improper control inputs.
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.
Analysis
The pilot under training, who occupied the front seat, said that on short final he saw a set of power lines which crossed the extended runway centerline near the approach end of the runway. He said he felt that the aircraft was not going to clear the wires and he increased the aircraft nose pitch attitude. A high rate of sink developed and the aircraft struck a parked truck on a street short of the runway. The CFI said that he saw the pilot under training raise the nose attitude but that he did not apply power 'because of the aircraft pitch-up tendency.' Witnesses at the airport saw the aircraft approach 'low and flat.' On short final they saw the aircraft nose come up and the aircraft stalled 'then came down like an elevator.' This was the first flight for the pilot under training in this aircraft type.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1119E
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 309-77
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-H1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- C.P. Aviation, Inc.
- Departed
- SZP
- Destination
- SZP
- Airport
- SZP · Santa Paul, runway 22, 2,650 × 40 ft, asphalt
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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 645 total · 100 in this make and model · 494 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.