- Date
- September 13, 1994, 10:50 local (16:50 UTC)
- Place
- Nampa, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N85564Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940913026869A
- Case key
- 42023
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Probable cause
Directional control was not maintained. A factor to the accident was: inadequate supervision.
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
During the landing roll on a local instructional flight, the airplane began to swerve to the right. Left rudder control was applied; however, the airplane traveled off the edge of the runway into the soft soil and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On September 13, 1994, at 1050 mountain daylight time, an Aeronca 7AC, N85564, nosed over during the landing roll at the Nampa Municipal Airport, Nampa, ID. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the local instructional flight. The airplane was substantially damaged and the private pilot and flight instructor were not injured.
The flight instructor reported that the purpose of the flight was to check out the private pilot in a tailwheel airplane. During the landing roll on runway 29, with the private pilot at the controls, the airplane began to swerve to the right. Left rudder control was applied, however, the airplane exited the side of the runway into the soft soil and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85564
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-4306
- Airframe hours
- 3,067
- Engine
- Continental A65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Rocky Mountain Air
- Registered owner
- Rocky Mountain Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 2, 1994 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- S67 · Nampa Municipal, runway 29, 4,050 × 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
- 52
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 5,466 total · 74 in this make and model · 5,067 as pilot in command · 285 in the last 90 days · 92 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- U35, 6 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.