- Date
- May 29, 1993, 22:34 local (May 30, 1993, 06:34 UTC)
- Place
- Dillingham, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1926VCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19930529015599A
- Case key
- 2346
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain proper runway alignment.
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 in command had been performing touch and go landings and this was his final landing. The airplane began to drift to the west side of the runway and upon touchdown the main landing wheel caught on the edge of the runway and the airplane ground looped striking the right wing on the ground.
Factual narrative
On May 29, 1993, at 2234 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Cessna 140 airplane, N1926V, registered to and operated by the Pilot in Command, drifted off the runway and ground looped during landing at the Dillingham airport, Dillingham, Alaska. The personal flight, operating under 14 CFR Part 91, last departed Dillingham for touch and go practice. No flight plan was filed and visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The airplane was substantially damaged and the Private Certificated Pilot in Command, the sole occupant, was not injured.
According to the Pilot in Command, this was his final landing and the airplane drifted to the west side of the runway and upon touchdown the wheel caught on the edge of the runway and the airplane ground looped.
The Pilot in Command stated there were no mechanical irregularities.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1926V
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 14124
- Airframe hours
- 2,510
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Flensburg, Oscar
- Registered owner
- Flensburg, Oscar
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 15, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- DLG
- Airport
- DLG · Dillingham, runway 19, 6,400 × 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 112 total · 38 in this make and model · 70 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DLG, 1 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 N1926V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.