- Date
- February 6, 1983, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Millbrook, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8570VBellanca 7GCAA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830206002989A
- Case key
- 35150
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Landing gear,wheel - frozenFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
Plt stated the left wheel froze causing a loss of directional control. The acft made a 90 deg turn to the right & slid backwards down an embankment into a pond.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8570V
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCAA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 308-75
- Airframe hours
- 610
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Walter Rechsteiner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 8, 1982 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- N72 · Warwick, NY
- Airport
- 44N · Sky Acres, runway 35, 3,800 × 20 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,168 total · 272 in this make and model · 272 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.