- Date
- September 3, 1985, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- New Smyrna Bch, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84046Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850903047829A
- Case key
- 31448
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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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 aircraft swerved to the left on landing as the tailwheelcontacted the runway. The aircraft left the runway and collided with an embankment shearing the right main landing gear. A post accident examination of the tailwheel steering entering assembly revealed that it had been improperly adlusted/installed which left the tailwheel locked in such a manner so as to produced a swerving moment when the tail wheel contacted the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84046
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC2733
- Airframe hours
- 2,909
- Engine
- Continental A-65, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph J. Wisnewski,Jr.
- Registered owner
- Andrew A.Zigmantas
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 27, 1984
- Departed
- X26 · Sebastian, FL
- Destination
- 34J · New Smyrna Bch, FL
- Airport
- 34J · New Smyrna Beach, runway 11, 4,300 × 100 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 12,961 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 224 in the last 90 days · 88 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 10 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 12 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.