- Date
- September 3, 2022, 20:00 local (Sep 4, 2022, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- McCarty, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91224Cessna 180H
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 105926
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to initiate a go around maneuver when the airplane past the intended touch down point.
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 pilot reported that, during landing, the wind shifted to a tailwind, and he landed past his intended touch down point. Breaking action was poor on the river rock surface and when the airplane was nearing the end of the airstrip the pilot, “ground looped the airplane to prevent the airplane from rolling over the bank.” Subsequently, the left wheel hit large rocks and the airplane nosed over off the end of the runway, which resulted in substantial damage to both wing tips, the right wing strut, horizontal stabilizer and elevator. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation..
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91224
- Reported as
- Cessna 180H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052010
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 3,363
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tailwheel Transitions LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 6, 2022
- Departed
- PAMX · McCarthy, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- AK0 · Jake's Bar, runway 28, 1,000 × 50 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Handheld GPS
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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 10, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 14,500 total · 690 in this make and model · 6,384 as pilot in command · 62 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Observed at
- PAVD, 97 nm away
- METAR
- PAVD 040356Z 29003KT 10SM -RA FEW008 BKN049 OVC060 11/ A2967 RMK AO2 SLP044 12/12 P0006 T0106 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 7, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB in all.
Other investigations on N91224 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.