- Date
- June 17, 1992, 18:30 local (Jun 18, 1992, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N125KTCessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920617020819A
- Case key
- 5744
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Failure to maintain directional control. Factors include tailwheel vibration/shimmy, and an inadvertent ground loop.
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
During the attempted short field landing, the pilot of the Cessna 185F was unable to maintain directional control, and the aircraft departed the runway, ground looped and dragged a wing. After the accident, the pilot said that the tailwheel had developed a vibration/shimmy during the landing roll, and when the aircraft began to veer off the runway, he was unable to stop it with application of opposite rudder and brake.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N125KT
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503494
- Airframe hours
- 5,173
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- K2 Aviation
- Registered owner
- K2 Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 12, 1992 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- Kahiltna Glacie, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- TKA · Talkeetna State Airport, runway 18, 3,500 × 75 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 31 in this make and model · 2,450 as pilot in command · 140 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 5.6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F
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 N125KT · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.