- Date
- May 13, 1999, 17:50 local (22:50 UTC)
- Place
- Tupelo, MS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4478CCessna 195A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 12, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19990513020849A
- Case key
- 46324
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control which resulted in an inadvertent ground loop/swerve and subsequent nose over.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated that he was conducting instrument training in the aircraft that evening with a safety pilot. During the landing roll, he lost directional control , the airplane ground looped and then nosed over. The pilot did not report any mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On May 13, 1999, at 1750 central daylight time, a Cessna 195A, N4478C, veered off the runway and flipped inverted during the landing roll at the Tupelo Airport, in Tupelo, Mississippi. The airplane was operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and visual flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the local flight. The pilot and passenger were not injured and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The flight originated from Tupelo, Mississippi, at 1715.
After approximately 50 minutes of instrument training, the pilot and safety pilot returned to the departure airport . The pilot established a final approach to runway 36 for a full stop landing. After the airplane touched down on the runway surface, it veered off the runway and flipped inverted . The landing gear also collapsed.
No mechanical problems with the aircraft were reported by the pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4478C
- Reported as
- Cessna 195A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16062
- Airframe hours
- 4,450
- Engine
- Jacobs R755B2, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Leslie Mceachern
- Registered owner
- Alpha Pappa Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 7, 1998 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- TUP
- Airport
- TUP · Tupelo C.D. Lemons, runway 36, 6,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Military
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,457 total · 20 in this make and model · 13,597 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TUP
FAA reports on this event · 1
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