- Date
- May 11, 1996, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bend, OR
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2606ZAeronca 7BCM
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 2, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960511044219A
- Case key
- 42365
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to adequately compensate for wind conditions during the landing. Factors contributing to the accident were a crosswind and gusty wind conditions.
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
After overflying the airport and observing the windsock showing a strong, westerly crosswind, the pilot executed an approach to runway 16. Immediately before touchdown the pilot encountered three successive gusts during which the aircraft departed the runway environment to the east. During the final gust a wing stalled and the aircraft impacted the ground.
Factual narrative
On May 11, 1996, approximately 1130 hours Pacific daylight time, an Aeronca 7BCM, N2606Z, being flown by a private pilot, was substantially damaged during a loss of control on landing at the Bend Municipal airport, Bend, Oregon. The pilot and pilot-rated rear-seat passenger sustained minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the time and no flight plan had been filed. The flight, which was personal, was to have been operated under 14CFR91, and originated from Nampa, Idaho, stopping at Burns, Oregon, and departing approximately 0945 local.
The pilot reported that upon arriving at the destination she overflew the airport and observed the "wind was blowing out of the West and the sock was straight out." She then entered the pattern and executed an approach to runway 16. Immediately before touchdown the aircraft encountered a gust which she successfully corrected for. This was followed by a second gust which blew the aircraft left off the runway. The pilot reported that a third gust lifted the right wing and then one wing stalled during which the left wingtip impacted the ground. The aircraft executed a half a cartwheel before coming to rest.
The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2606Z
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7BCM
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-334
- Airframe hours
- 6,954
- Engine
- Continental C85-F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Osprey Aviation
- Registered owner
- Hartnett Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1995 · 44 hours before
- Departed
- S67 · Nampa, ID
- Airport
- S07 · Bend Municipal, runway 16, 5,005 × 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 82 total · 28 in this make and model · 57 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDM, 10 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.