- Date
- May 19, 2014, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Douglass, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2649KSilvaire Luscombe 8E
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 2, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 89570
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive use of wheel brakes during landing, which resulted in a nose-over. Contributing to the accident were high winds and a short, downhill sloped runway.
Findings · 5
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
While landing on a short, downhill strip with high winds, the pilot stated that he applied excessive brakes and the airplane nosed over. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
While landing on a short, downhill strip with high winds, the pilot stated that he applied excessive brakes and the airplane nosed over. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2649K
- Reported as
- Silvaire Luscombe 8E (E)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5376
- Built
- 1947
- Engine
- Continental Motors C85, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Oneil Ashley J
- Registered owner
- Oneil Ashley J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 2013
- Departed
- Pvt · Atlanta, KS
- Destination
- Douglass, KS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PVT · Private, runway PVT, 1,200 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 25, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 230 total · 40 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 26 knots, gusting 35
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.70 inHg
- Observed at
- KIAB, 14 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 21, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 MB in all.