Aeronca 7EC N84116

Summary

On 27 May 2015 at about 10:00 local time, a Aeronca 7EC registered N84116, operated by Above Alaska Aviation, was involved in an accident near Palmer, Alaska, 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

27 May 2015 at 10:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Palmer, Alaska, United States

Nearest airport

Palmer Airport (PAAQ)

Coordinates

61.5994, -149.0875

Aircraft

Aeronca 7EC

Registration

N84116

Category

Airplane

Year built

1946

Engines

1

Operator

Above Alaska Aviation

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Talkeenta → Palmer

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

ANC15CA031

Nobody was injured.

The instructor's delayed remedial actions, and the student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which resulted in a stall just above the ground and the subsequent hard landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot and his instructor were landing in a tailwheel-equipped airplane at night. The student pilot did two full stop landings on the night cross-country flight. During the first landing, the airplane stalled just above the runway, and the front left landing gear made contact with the runway first, resulting in a hard landing. The second landing was a normal, soft touchdown landing. A postflight inspection revealed that a portion of airplane's fuselage, on the left side, sustained substantial damage from the hard landing. The instructor pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.