- Date
- August 18, 1988, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wellsville, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7772JBoeing A75N1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36215
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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
A private plt on a local flight made a stopover landing on runway 28. The plt reported that during the landing flare, he was temporarily blinded by the setting sun directly in the flight path. At touchdown the airplane weathervaned into the right crosswind, the plt lost directional control and the acft ground looped to the right. The plane rolled into a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7772J
- Reported as
- Boeing A75N1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-8175
- Airframe hours
- 3,558
- Engine
- Continental R-670, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Lewis
- Registered owner
- Robert P Lewis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 20, 1988 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- PN90 · Roulette, PA
- Destination
- PN90
- Airport
- ELZ · Wellsville, runway 28, 4,900 × 75 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 400 in this make and model · 1,600 as pilot in command · 43 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 360° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
Other investigations on N7772J · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.