- Date
- February 18, 2013, 09:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Paula, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N50380Bellanca 7ECA
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130218002339A
- Case key
- 86243
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that after touchdown in the tail wheel-equipped airplane, the airplane began to veer to the left. The pilot applied right rudder and right brake but was unable to keep the airplane on the runway. The airplane departed the side of the runway and subsequently impacted a building, wrinkling and bending the left wing and the left elevator. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that after touchdown in the tail wheel equipped airplane, it began to veer to the left. The pilot applied right rudder control and right brake action but was unable to keep the airplane on the runway. The airplane departed the side of the runway and subsequently impacted a building wrinkling and bending the left wing and the left elevator. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50380
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1291-79
- Airframe hours
- 4,341
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235 SERIES, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- C P Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- C P Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2012
- Departed
- SZP · Santa Paula, CA
- Destination
- SZP · Santa Paula, CA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- SZP · Santa Paula Airport, runway 04, 2,713 × 60 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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 23, 2011
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 912 total · 22 in this make and model · 822 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 8 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- CMA, 8 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 688 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.