NYC82DA195 · Champion 7ECA
Champion 7ECA · Accident: loss of engine power on approach
From Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM) to Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC82DA195
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Champion 7ECA
- Aircraft type
- Champion 7
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N2830G
- Operator
- Richard D. Hondon · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM), Lawrence, MATo Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM), Lawrence, MA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Fuel system, ram air/induction air › Blocked(partial)
- Fuel system, ram air/induction air › Foreign object damage
- Object › Utility pole
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Lawrence, MA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT REPORTED THAT THERE WAS A LOSS OF POWER AFTER THE STUDENT HAD ADJUSTED HIS PATTERN FOR ANOTHER AIRCRAFT AND TURNED ON FINAL APPROACH. THE INSTRUCTOR TOOK CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT AND LANDED ON A STREET. DURING THE LANDING THE AIRCRAFT STRUCK A LIGHT POLE. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT A BIRD HAD BEEN INJESTED INTO THE CARBURETOR AIR BOX FLANGE. THE BLOCKAGE DISRUPTED AIRFLOW THROUGH THE MAIN AIR PASSAGE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC82DA195
- Event ID
- 20020917X03994
- Case number
- NYC82DA195
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: fd7251a49e38bf525b7d9b1da78bb74db02eee0d0bb77c0cea775f941ec988c5; retrieved 2026-09-24T01:37:57.074Z.