- Date
- August 24, 1986, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sandpoint, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4151YBellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860824075619A
- Case key
- 40484
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt lost directional control of the acft for unknown reasons during the landing roll and a ground loop resulted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4151Y
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1181-77
- Airframe hours
- 1,930
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-CI, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard C. Cooper
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- S61 · Atol, ID
- Destination
- S86 · Sandpoint, ID
- Airport
- S86 · Sandpoint Arpt, runway 19, 3,900 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 123 total · 30 in this make and model · 68 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.