- Date
- December 10, 1983, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Nantucket, MA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5041NBellanca 7GCBC Citabria
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831210073869A
- Case key
- 35480
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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 acft experienced a power loss and crashed during a low pass to observe an object on the ground. The flt had departednantucket and flown over to tuckernuck isl where a descent was made to observe an unusual object on a shoal. Carburetor heat was applied and the throttle closed. After descending to 160 ft flaps were added to slow the acft. When the object was sighted power was applied but the engine did not respond. At this time the plt planned to land on the shoal while attempting to restart the eng. The plt worked the throttle in an attempt to restart the engine in a near stall attitude the engine fired and went to high RPM torque rolling the acft to the left. The plt again closed the throttle and used full forward elevator right aileron and rudder. The acft struck the ground with left wing then the left main gear and nose gear. The acft was damaged but no one was injured during the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5041N
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC Citabria (7GCBC CITA)
- Category
- Airplane
- Airframe hours
- 356
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David Emory
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ACK · Nantucket, MA
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,076 total · 31 in this make and model · 961 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.