- Date
- December 5, 1992, 13:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Medford, OR
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2216EAeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921205049169A
- Case key
- 42927
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain clearance from wires while buzzing.
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 pilot descended to a low altitude AGL to buzz a private residence and the acft impacted electrical wires above a lake. The acft impacted water in an uncontrolled descent and sank in the lake.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2216E
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC5790
- Airframe hours
- 3,290
- Engine
- Continental A-65-8F, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jones, Richard L.
- Registered owner
- Jones, Richard A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 4, 1991 · 38 hours before
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 647 total · 438 in this make and model · 587 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MFR, 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 N2216E · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.