NTSB Identification: ERA15LA379
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Tuesday, August 25, 2015 in Atlanta, GA
Aircraft: ENGINEERING & RESEARCH ERCOUPE 415 C, registration: N87172
Injuries: 2 Uninjured.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On August 25, 2015, at 1350 eastern daylight time, an Engineering and Research Ercoupe 415-C, N87172, sustained substantial damage during landing at the Newnan Coweta County Airport (CCO), Atlanta, Georgia. The flight instructor and the private pilot were not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the private pilot as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the airport at the time of the accident and no flight plan was filed for the local flight that departed from CCO about 1340.
The flight instructor stated the airplane yawed left on takeoff and the private pilot had a hard time controlling the airplane. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and had to apply "hard" right aileron and right rudder to maintain level flight. He said that he initiated a full power climb to 400 ft and noticed the airplane was easier to control at a higher airspeed. The flight instructor made a wide turn from base on to final, reduced power, and lined up with the runway centerline. Once the runway was made, he reduced power and the airplane immediately yawed to the left. The flight instructor said he corrected with right rudder, but the airplane had drifted over the left side of the runway and landed hard on the grass. The nose-wheel collapsed and the firewall was substantially damaged as a result.
The airplane was retained for further examination.
FAA Flight Standards District Office: FAA Atlanta FSDO-11
There were no injuries after an ERCO 415-C Ercoupe made a hard landing on Tuesday afternoon.
At 1:48, firefighters were dispatched to the Newnan-Coweta Airport after a private pilot brought the small plane down on the runway.
According to assistant chief Mitch Coggin, units arrived to find the plane sitting nose down in the grass with a small fuel leak.
Members of the department lifted the plane back into its proper position, which stopped the leak.
911 was called as a precaution and the FAA is currently investigating the accident.
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