- Date
- July 15, 1989, 19:40 local (Jul 16, 1989, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- American Falls, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1636EAeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890715066149A
- Case key
- 41048
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Probable cause
An engine failure due to stripped and broken teeth on a magneto drive gear in the accessory gear box. A soft field caused the nose over during the forced landing.
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 plt rprtd that during flt the eng lost power. Subsequently,the acft nosed over during an emergency landing in a soft field. Rprtdly, an accessory gear that drove a magneto had become stripped and broken, causing the magneto to get out of time with the cam.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1636E
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC5201
- Engine
- Continental C-65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Roger Nelson
- Registered owner
- Roger Nelson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Jerome, ID
- Destination
- American Falls, ID
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
- 45
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IDA, 70 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.