- Date
- May 10, 2008, 09:35 local (17:35 UTC)
- Place
- Chugiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7598TCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20080510838619A
- Case key
- 67984
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was an inadvertent ground loop/swerve.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The private pilot was landing a tailwheel and tundra tire-equipped airplane on an asphalt runway which was about 4,010 feet long and about 100 feet wide. During the landing roll, the pilot reported that the airplane began to veer to the left. He applied full right rudder and added engine power to abort the landing, but the airplane continued to veer to the left. The pilot reduced engine power to idle, but the airplane ground looped, and departed the left side of the runway. The airplane received structural damage to the right wing spar, aileron, and flap, and the right main landing gear separated from the fuselage. The pilot reported that the airplane did not have a mechanical malfunction.
Factual narrative
The private pilot was landing a tailwheel and tundra tire-equipped airplane on an asphalt runway which was about 4,010 feet long and about 100 feet wide. During the landing roll, the pilot reported that the airplane began to veer to the left. He applied full right rudder and added engine power to abort the landing, but the airplane continued to veer to the left. The pilot reduced engine power to idle, but the airplane ground looped, and departed the left side of the runway. The airplane received structural damage to the right wing spar, aileron, and flap, and the right main landing gear separated from the fuselage. The pilot reported that the airplane did not have a mechanical malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7598T
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 47198
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Patrick G. Ross
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PAMR · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- PABV · Chugiak, AK
- Airport
- PABV · Birchwood, runway 19R, 4,010 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 122 total · 113 in this make and model · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.68 inHg
- Observed at
- PABV
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.