- Date
- June 4, 2020, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Castroville, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88688Cessna 305
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20200604008929A
- Case key
- 101475
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
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 of a tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that during the day he practiced several landings with no anomalies. He picked up a passenger and attempted a full stop landing at a nearby airport. Shortly after touchdown, the airplane nose turned slightly to the right. The pilot corrected with rudder input to the left, and the airplane turned sharply to the left. He stated that he could not correct the left turn with the rudder or wheel brakes, and the airplane exited the left side of the runway. The right wing and right horizontal stabilizer contacted terrain, and the airplane came to rest upright. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing and the elevator. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88688
- Reported as
- Cessna 305 (C)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61-2962
- Built
- 1961
- Airframe hours
- 4,600
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 215 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2019
- Departed
- 5C1 · Boerne, TX
- Destination
- CVB · Castroville, TX
- Airport
- CVB · Castroville Municpal Airport, runway 16, 5,001 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total · 1.6 in this make and model · 6,400 as pilot in command · 170 in the last 90 days · 63 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 9, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 720 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.