- Date
- June 28, 1986, 13:58 local (21:58 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N180SRCessna 180H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19860628028209A
- Case key
- 4598
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot and the owner of the airplane serviced the brakes prior to takeoff. When they returned from a local flight, the right brake was inoperative during the landing roll-out. The airplane groundlooped to the left, then went off the left edge of the runway, damaging the right wing and horizontal stabilizer.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N180SR
- Reported as
- Cessna 180H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051860
- Airframe hours
- 11,217
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cleve Embree Mcdonald
- Registered owner
- John Carlile Mcdonald
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 7, 1986 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Field, runway 33, 2,469 × 60 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,820 total · 510 in this make and model · 8,820 as pilot in command · 270 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI, 4 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N180SR · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.