- Date
- May 17, 1985, 13:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Rio Vista, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2899ZBellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40158
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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 instructor plt (CFI) reported that during a bounced landing recovery, the student plt held the acft in a 3-point attitude above the rwy. As airspeed decayed, the (CFI) took control & added full power. However, the right wing dropped & grazed rising terrain on the right shoulder of the runway. This induced a groundloop to the right & resulted in further damage to the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2899Z
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1243-78
- Airframe hours
- 1,210
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Siegel Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 21, 1984 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- HWD · Hayward, CA
- Airport
- 088 · Rio Vista Muni, runway 25, 2,616 × 50 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,268 total · 25 in this make and model · 1,162 as pilot in command · 350 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None