# Incident 20100504032959I: Cessna 180K, Talkeetna, AK, May 4, 2010

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 4, 2010, 13:14 local time
- Place: Talkeetna, AK
- Airport: Talkeetna
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 62.3214° N, 150.0927° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at TALKEETNA (TKA), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=62.3214&lon=-150.0927&mi=10
- Aircraft: N823E (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 180K
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 20,000 total, 800 in this make and model, 40 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100504032959I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AT 2114 ZULU (1314 AKDT) ON 5/4/2010, N823E, A CESSNA 180 OPERATING UNDER § 91 FLIGHT RULES, WAS INVOLVED IN A ACCIDENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER LANDING ROLLOUT AT TALKEETNA AIRPORT (PTKA).  PRELIMINARY REPORTS INDICATE THAT PILOT RICHARD SHEAR WAS THE ONLY SOLE ONBOARD.  MR. SHEAR IS A ATP AMEL AND COM SEL/SES CERTIFICATED AIRMAN.  N823E CONDUCTED ABOUT 10 TOUCH AND GOES AT WILLOW AIRPORT (PAUO) AND STOPPED FOR FUEL THERE.  MR. SHEAR DEPARTED PAUO AND SET UP FOR A 36 LANDING AT PTKA WITH INFORMATION FOXTROT, WHICH CALLED FOR WINDS 300 AT 10 KNOTS GUSTING TO 16 KNOTS.  MR. SHEAR STATED THAT THE LANDING WENT WELL AND AS HE STARTED TO APPLY BRAKES, THE LEFT BRAKE "GRABBED" AND PULLED HIM LEFT.  MR. SHEAR STATES THAT HE THEN APPLIED BOTH BRAKES TO ARREST THE DIRECTION AND FORWARD MOMENTUM TOOK HIM INTO A NOSE DOWN VERTICAL POSITION.  WEATHER OBSERVATION FOR 1253 AKDT AT PATK WAS WINDS NW AT 8 KNOTS, VISIBILITY 10 MILES, WEATHER FAIR, SKY CONDITIONS CLEAR, TEMPERATURE 57, DEW POINT 23 AND ALTIMETER 30.36 INCHES OF MERCURY.  MR. SHEAR, THE SOLE OCCUPANT, WAS UNINJURED AND THERE WERE NO INJURIES ON THE GROUND.  THE AIRPLANE SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE THAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE, NOT SUBSTANTIAL.  THE DAMAGE INCLUDED A BENT PROP, DENTED COWLING AND SCUFFED LEFT WING TIP.  THE NTSB HAS CLASSIFIED THIS ACCIDENT, AS A INCIDENT.  ON 5/5/2010, INSPECTOR GEBER SPOKE WITH FSS SPECIALIST ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.  SPECIALIST ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ STATED THAT ABOUT 10 SECONDS AFTER N823E LANDED HE HAD HIS BACK TO THE AIRCRAFT AND AS HE WAS TURNING AROUND NOTICED THE AIRCRAFT VEER TO THE LEFT AT A RELATIVELY SLOW SPEED AND GO UP ON ITS NOSE.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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