- Date
- May 6, 1991, 09:20 local (16:20 UTC)
- Place
- Madera, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N86295Aeronca 11AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910506065329A
- Case key
- 27197
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Probable cause
That the pilot failed to properly recover from a bounced landing. Contributing to this accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the airplane.
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 noncertificated student pilot was practicing touch and go takeoffs and landings in the tailwheel airplane. On the second landing the student pilot flare was improper and the airplane began to porpoise. The student failed to recover from the bounced landing and the airplane ground looped and cartwheeled. The student pilot accrued 70 hours of which only 3 hours were in tailwheel airplanes. This flight was not approved by the student pilot's CFI.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N86295
- Reported as
- Aeronca 11AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11AC-101
- Engine
- Continental A-75, 75 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gid Adkisson
- Registered owner
- Gid Adkisson
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- Q60 · Fresno, CA
- Airport
- CA · Madera, runway 3, 4,500 × 150 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 70 total · 3 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.