- Date
- May 31, 1989, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Alexandria, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N85459Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890531013869A
- Case key
- 34797
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Probable cause
That proper starting procedures were not followed by the pilot in command and the aircraft was not tied down.
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 that while attempting to start the acft by hand propping, the engine started and the acft jumped the chocks. The acft collided with a parked acft, causing substantial damage to both acft. The plt said that he must have misjudged the throttle position, causing the excessive thrust after the engine started.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85459
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AC4199
- Airframe hours
- 3,554
- Engine
- Continental A-65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Alexandria Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 24, 1989 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- AXN · Alexandria, MN
- Airport
- AXN · Alexandria, runway 31, 5,100 × 100 ft, macadam
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 land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 746 total · 3 in this make and model · 610 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AXN, 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.