- Date
- January 2, 1991, 14:05 local (19:05 UTC)
- Place
- La Grange, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2187CCessna 195B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910102000539A
- Case key
- 8367
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Probable cause
The failure of the tailwheel steering spring.
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 airline transport pilot was on landing roll when the aircraft began to turn to the right. The aircraft was substantially damaged when it ran off the runway and struck a ditch. Investigation revealed that the tailwheel steering spring had failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2187C
- Reported as
- Cessna 195B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16172
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-A2, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Abbott, Ted M.
- Registered owner
- Abbott, Ted M.
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- LGC · La Grange Calloway, runway 31, 5,600 × 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 19,380 total · 35 in this make and model · 13,152 as pilot in command · 202 in the last 90 days · 52 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,400 ft overcast
- Observed at
- CSG, 30 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 N2187C · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.