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Event DEN08CA043

2007-12-22 Gallup, New Mexico, United States Airport · GUP None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8305V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7GCAA

Year of manufacture

1966 · 41 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670504

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB5B75

Registrant of record

BELL ANTHONY J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

The pilot's premature landing flare and an inadvertent stall/mush. A contributing factor is pilot's lack of recent night experience.

Factual narrative

According to a telephone conversation with the pilot, during the night landing to runway 06 (7,316 feet by 100 feet, asphalt) he flared too high and the airplane "stalled." The airplane impacted the runway with the nose "canted to the right." The pilot reported that he added power in attempt to straighten the airplane. The airplane departed the runway to the right. The airplane traveled through a ditch and nosed over. Both wings were bent down and aft, the firewall wrinkled, and the vertical stabilizer crushed down. The pilot reported no anomalies with the airplane systems. The pilot reported he was not night current and did not hold a valid medical certificate. Despite several requests, the pilot did not complete and submit an Aircraft Accident Investigation Report Form 6120.1. According to the pilot, during the night landing he flared too high, the airplane stalled, and impacted the runway with the nose canted to the right. He said that he added power in attempt to straighten the airplane, but the airplane departed the runway to the right, traveled through a ditch and nosed over, resulting in substantial damage. The pilot reported no anomalies with the airplane systems. He stated he was not night current, and did not hold a valid medical certificate. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_2007_DEN08CA043.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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