- Date
- March 15, 1985, 11:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place
- Bremerton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5033WBellanca 7GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850315008599A
- Case key
- 40129
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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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inaccurateCause
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Weather condition - unfavorable windFactor
Nose over
Recovery from bounced landing - inadequateCause
Analysis
The acft bounced during landing and adequate recovery was not made. The acft came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5033W
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1071-79
- Airframe hours
- 1,634
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E20, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Garber
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 20, 1984 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Destination
- PWT · Bremerton, WA
- Airport
- PWT · Bremerton National, runway 1, 6,200 × 150 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
- 71
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 738 total · 13 in this make and model · 615 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 5° at 10 knots, gusting 13
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 39 °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.