- Date
- June 11, 1990, 16:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Pocatello, ID
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N1877GChampion 7KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900611019839A
- Case key
- 41113
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Probable cause
The instructor pilots poor judgement in performing low altitude steep turn maneuvers resulting in an inadvertant stall at an altitude too low for recovery. Factors in the accident were the over gross weight and out-of-cg aircraft loading, and strong gusty winds.
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 acft was on a student training flt in an area where the instructor was known to have students perform low level contour following flts at altitudes as low as 10 ft AGL following the winding snake river. These flights required constant steep turns with 60-70 deg bank angles to stay over the river. The 54-HR student pilot was on his 2nd local training flt since resuming flt training after being inactive for 8 years. The acft was over gw and out of aft CG limits for aerobatic flight. Winds at the time of the accident were 18 knots gusting to 27.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1877G
- Reported as
- Champion 7KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108
- Airframe hours
- 1,820
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Northwest Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 11, 1990 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- PIH · Pocatello, ID
- Airport
- NONE
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,188 total · 450 in this make and model · 2,948 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 18 knots, gusting 27
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIH, 5 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 N1877G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.