- Date
- July 24, 1992, 14:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wrangell, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9398CCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920724031049A
- Case key
- 5759
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Probable cause
An inoperative tailwheel.
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 tail wheel began to shimmy upon landing and the pilot was not able to stop the shimmy. He stepped on the brakes to stop the airplane and the airplane ground looped before coming to a stop. No determination for the tail wheel shimmy was made due to the damage to the tail wheel incurred during the ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9398C
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31796
- Airframe hours
- 4,165
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Neel Glass
- Registered owner
- Neel Glass
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 1992 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- PSG · Petersburg, AK
- Airport
- WRG · Wrangell, runway 27, 6,000 × 150 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,875 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 2,875 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.