- Date
- June 19, 2023, 11:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9214CCessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 192409
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Probable cause
A loss of directional control, while landing, due to a flat main landing gear tire.
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 of a tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, during landing and upon touchdown, the airplane veered abruptly to the right with a lower-than-normal right wing. He applied left rudder and brake and the airplane veered to the left and exited the runway. The right main landing gear wheel dug into the gravel, the airplane spun and the right wingtip struck the ground. The right wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot discovered the right main landing gear tire was flat.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9214C
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31313
- Built
- 1954
- Airframe hours
- 3,850
- Engine
- Continental O470R, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2022 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- TKA · Talkeetna Airport, runway 01, 3,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 4, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 2,800 total · 2,100 in this make and model · 2,800 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- PATK
- METAR
- PATK 191953Z 19006KT 10SM CLR 19/07 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP195 T01890067 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 26, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 665 KB in all.
Other investigations on N9214C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.