- Date
- June 30, 1988, 13:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N434NTravel Air D4D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11423
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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
The plt reported that during the landing roll the tail wheel began to shimmy. He stated that since there was not enough airspeed to lift the tail of the acft, he applied brakes in an attempt to slow the acft. At this time the acft veered to the right. He applied left brake to straighten the acft but the brake was ineffective. To prevent the acft from traveling off the runway and onto the taxiway where workmen and equipment were present, the plt groundlooped the acft. The plt reportedly serviced the brakes just prior to this flt. The acft was moved after the accident before it could be inspected.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N434N
- Reported as
- Travel Air D4D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1340
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pepsico, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MGY · Dayton, OH
- Destination
- ROA · Roanoke, VA
- Airport
- ROA · Roanoke Regional, runway 33, 5,800 × 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
- 64
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 27,000 total · 200 in this make and model · 22,000 as pilot in command · 110 in the last 90 days · 52 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ROA
Other investigations on N434N · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.