- Date
- September 5, 2010, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Defiance, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N716CSCullis Ultracruiser Sport
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20100905044929A
- Case key
- 77246
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft 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 student pilot reported that he landed on a 1,500-foot-long strip of grass near his friend’s house. According to the pilot, after landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane sustained substantial damage when it came to an abrupt stop while taxiing on the rough terrain. As a result of the airplane's abrupt stop, the nose lunged forward and the propeller impacted the terrain. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions with the airframe or engine.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that he landed on a strip of grass about 1,500 feet long near his friend’s house. According to the pilot, after landing, the tailwheel airplane sustained substantial damage when it came to an abrupt stop while taxiing in the rough terrain. The pilot said that the airplane’s nose went forward, the propeller impacted the terrain, and then the fuselage came back down. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane in reference to the flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N716CS
- Reported as
- Cullis Ultracruiser Sport
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 532
- Airframe hours
- 18
- Engine
- Hummel 37, 37 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · April 16, 2008
- Departed
- 0G6 · Bryan, OH
- Destination
- PVT · Defiance, OH
- Flight plan
- Unknown
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
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 33 total · 18 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- DFI
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 12, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 310 KB 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.