- Date
- July 13, 2009, 20:40 local (Jul 14, 2009, 02:40 UTC)
- Place
- Joplin, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96660Taylorcraft BC-D
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-Kansas City FSDOq
- FAA report
- 20090713011679A
- Case key
- 74269
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he made a normal wheel landing in the tailwheel equipped airplane. After the tailwheel settled onto the runway, the airplane veered to the right and hit a runway light when it departed the runway. The airplane rolled into some soft, muddy terrain and it nosed over.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he made a normal wheel landing in the tail wheel equipped airplane. After the tail wheel settled onto the runway, the airplane veered to the right and hit a runway light when it departed the runway. The airplane encountered some soft, muddy terrain and it nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96660
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BC-D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8960
- Engine
- Continental H-65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Michael Warman
- Registered owner
- Michael Warman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Departed
- LLN · Joplin, MO
- Destination
- LLN · Joplin, MO
- Airport
- LLN · Joplin Airport, runway 18
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 67
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Flight hours
- 3,024 total · 380 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 5, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.2 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.