- Date
- July 10, 1983, 12:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Bunnell, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2512ZBellanca 8KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830710059039A
- Case key
- 30911
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Analysis
The plt landed the tailwheel equipped acft on rwy 36 with a wind from 030 deg at 8 KTS. According to the plt, the main gear became bogged in soft sod during the latter part of the landing roll-out & the plane nosed over. The plt reported that he had 1007 hrs total time in tailwheel equipped acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2512Z
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 334-77
- Airframe hours
- 403
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-H1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard O'Neill
- Registered owner
- Daniel H. O'Neill
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 7, 1983 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- SGJ · St. Augustine, FL
- Airport
- Weeks Airstrip, runway 36, 1,320 × 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,138 total · 391 in this make and model · 1,063 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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