- Date
- May 5, 1984, 17:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Thomaston, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N11256Waco RNF
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840505018389A
- Case key
- 6450
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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.
Nose over
Proper alignment - not maintainedCause
Analysis
During the landing roll the acft drifted to the side of the sod strip where a wheel encountered a surface deviation. The acft turned & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11256
- Reported as
- Waco RNF
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3460
- Airframe hours
- 1,340
- Engine
- Warner 145, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Barbara Kitchens
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PVT · Griffin, GA
- Airport
- 2A2 · Reginald Grant Memorial, runway 27, 2,000 × 300 ft, grass/turf
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 30 in this make and model · 12,000 as pilot in command · 83 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCN, 37 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.