- Date
- June 28, 1993, 18:46 local (Jun 29, 1993, 02:46 UTC)
- Place
- Juneau, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4214NCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 2, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19930628020809A
- Case key
- 2371
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor to the accident was the pilot's lack of total experience.
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 solo student pilot lost control of a conventional wheeled airplane during a touch and go practice landing, and ground looped. On the same day he had been practicing landings in a tricycle wheeled airplane. The student had 28 hours total pilot time.
Factual narrative
On June 28, 1993, at 1846 Alaska daylight time, a wheeled equipped Cessna 140 airplane, N4214N, owned and operated by a student pilot, ground-looped on a touch and go landing at Juneau, Alaska. The solo pilot was conducting practice landings for instructional purposes under 14 CFR Part 91 in visual meteorological conditions. No flight plan was filed. The pilot was not injured, however the aircraft sustained substantial damage.
The student pilot told the NTSB that he had made an approach at 60 knots, and during a three point landing, "got into a bounce and couldn't control it." He said that he had 24 hours of total pilot time and that earlier that morning he had practiced landings in a tricycle gear Cessna 150 airplane.
The FAA told the NTSB that upon examination of the student's log book, that "he (the student pilot) did not have a proper endorsement in his log book to practice touch and go landings."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4214N
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Garlock, Gordon
- Registered owner
- Gordon Garlock
- Departed
- JNU
- Destination
- JNU
- Airport
- JNU · Juneau Airport, runway 26, 8,456 × 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 10 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Observed at
- JNU, 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.