- Date
- January 19, 1991, 14:16 local (22:16 UTC)
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N71745Luscombe 8A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910119000719A
- Case key
- 27096
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Probable cause
That the pilot failed to properly compensate for the wind conditions. Contributing to this accident was the existing crosswind.
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 was cleared to land on runway 30L at bfl. The surface winds were 080 degrees at 4 knots. During the landing roll he failed to properly compensate for the existing wind conditions, lost directional control, and inadvertently ground looped the airplane. The left main landing gear collapsed during the ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71745
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental C-85, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tom Kanonchoff, doing business as Et All
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- LSN · Los Banos, CA
- Airport
- BFL · Bakersfield, runway 3, 3,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- BFL, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N71745 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.