American Champion (Acac) 7EC N9898B

Summary

On 12 August 2006 at about 00:00 local time, a American Champion (Acac) 7EC registered N9898B was involved in an accident near Palmetto, Florida, United States. One person was 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

12 August 2006 at 00:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Palmetto, Florida, United States

Nearest airport

Manatee (48X)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

American Champion (Acac) 7EC

Registration

N9898B

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Palmetto → Tampa

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

MIA06LA127

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering which resulted in a stall.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot stated that he took off from runway 7, at Manatee Airport, performed a climbing right turn to make a 45-degree heading change to the right, and upon reaching 200 feet altitude initiated a descending left turn to 225 degrees, in an effort to reverse course and fly along runway 25. According to the pilot, in the turn the airplane became unresponsive about the roll axis, and the airplane continued the descent in a nose low, left wing low attitude. He said he applied full right aileron, full up elevator, and full right rudder control inputs, but was unable to arrest the rate of descent. The airplane impacted the ground in a slight left wing low nose low attitude. On August 12, 2006, an FAA inspector conducted a post accident examination of the airplane, and no preaccident anomalies were noted to exist.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.