Bellanca 8GCBC N55035

Summary

On 10 November 1999 at about 17:30 local time, a Bellanca 8GCBC registered N55035, operated by Claude G. Steele IV, was involved in an accident near Hollandale, Mississippi, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

10 November 1999 at 17:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Hollandale, Mississippi, United States

Nearest airport

Private (NONE)

Coordinates

33.1703, -90.8494

Aircraft

Bellanca 8GCBC

Registration

N55035

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Claude G. Steele IV

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ATL00LA011

Nobody was injured.

The certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the landing and the student pilot's failure to relinquish the flight controls when the certified flight instructor attempted to recover from a bounced landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

After several takeoffs and landings at the municipal airport, they returned to the private airport. Upon arriving, the pilot established an approach for a wheel landing on the north runway. During the touchdown phase of the wheel landing, the airplane bounced. According the certified flight instructor, 'I attempted to recover the airplane, but he ,the student pilot, did not relinquish the controls.' The airplane veered off the eastern edge of the runway and collided with a ditch. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilots.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.