LAX82FJA07 · Bellanca 7KCAB
Bellanca 7KCAB · Accident: loss of control in flight while maneuvering
From Kahului, HI to Kahului, HI
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX82FJA07
- 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
- 2 · 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
Bellanca 7KCAB
- Aircraft type
- Bellanca 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
- N8656V
- Operator
- V. J. Allencashe · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kahului, HITo Kahului, HI
- 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
- Maneuvering
- 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 control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall
- 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
- Dual student › Airspeed, misjudged
- Dual student › Altitude, misjudged
- Dual student › Distance, misjudged
- Dual student › Stall, inadvertent
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Supervision, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Makawao, HI, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES, THE OWNER NEEDED ABOUT 15 MORE HOURS IN THE TAILWHEEL AIRCRAFT BEFORE HE COULD FLY SOLO WITHOUT AN INSTRUCTOR. ON 9/24 AND 9/25, THE OWNER AND INSTRUCTOR PLANNED TO FLY THE NEEDED TIME. MAUI TOWER CONTROLLERS REPORTED THE PLANE DEPARTED TO THE SOUTHEAST TOWARD HAIKU OR MAKAWAO, HAWAII, NEAR WHERE THE OWNER LIVED. AT 1623 HST, MAUI TOWER ADVISED N8656V THAT RADAR CONTACT WAS LOST DUE TO THE PLANE'S LOCATION NEAR HALEAKALA AND N8656V RESPONDED WITH "ROGER". AT ABOUT 1630 HST, THREE KNOWN WITNESSES SAW OR HEARD THE PLANE BEFORE IT CRASHED. ONE WITNESS OBSERVED IT FLYING OVER RISING TERRAIN AT LOW ALTITUDE, AND THEN TURN LEFT. HE REPORTED THAT AS THE PLANE TURNED TOWARD A DOWNHILL HEADING, IT SUDDENLY NOSE DIVED. THE PLANE CRASHED IN A STEEP DESCENT AND BURNED. THE ELEVATION WAS 3200 FT MSL AND THE TEMPERATURE WAS 84 DEGREES. STRONG TRADE WINDS WERE REPORTED IN THE VICINITY OF THE ACCIDENT. AN EXAMINATION OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED NO PRECRASH MALFUNCTION OR FAILURE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX82FJA07
- Event ID
- 20020917X04771
- Case number
- LAX82FJA07
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1982-09-25.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 6fd5d285163dffe41aeba9c93201f29702e461eb620b885c2ff175d9918a3c54; retrieved 2026-09-21T07:44:56.393Z.