- Date
- May 25, 1984, 14:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Ketchikan, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3731EAeronca 7BCM
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840525019089A
- Case key
- 39922
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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.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Clearance - misjudgedCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear attachment - overloadFactor
Analysis
The plt was making a low turn at slow airspeed to land on a gravel road. His left gear dug into the gravel and broke offand the acft ground looped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3731E
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7BCM
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-7022
- Airframe hours
- 4,692
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles D. Mcgee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 19, 1983 · 22 hours before
- Airport
- ROAD · None
N3731ERegistration cancelled May 24, 2012 · Aeronca 7ACAirframe modelAeronca 7ACEngine modelContinental C85 series
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 4,017 total · 26 in this make and model · 3,494 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KTN, 45 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.
Other investigations on N3731E · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.