- Date
- December 23, 1984, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Newburg, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N836BLuscombe 8F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11156
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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.
Analysis
During ldg roll the PIC felt a vibration as the tailwheel contacted the rwy. In an effort to minimize the vibration the plt lifted the tailwheel off the rwy. The acft began to ground loop to the right toward a pole. Heavy application of the wheel brakes caused the acft to nose over to an inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N836B
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6768
- Airframe hours
- 1,900
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cary Carson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 1984 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- W32 · Clinton, MD
- Destination
- 2W8 · Newburg, MD
- Airport
- 2W8 · Aqualand/Xlifton Skypark, runway 9, 3,165 × 36 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,800 total · 1,020 in this make and model · 3,500 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DCA, 29 nm away