- Date
- March 5, 2021, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N763LGPost Thorp T-18
- 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
- FAA report
- 20210305002469A
- Case key
- 102752
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing with a crosswind.
Findings · 3
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 during landing he was slow to react when the wind lifted the airplane’s right wing. The airplane subsequently ground looped and came to a stop in the grass median between the runway and the taxiway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 01 with wind from 060o at 9 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N763LG
- Reported as
- Post Thorp T-18
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 460
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 570.95
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 30, 2020
- Departed
- 3I3 · Terre Haute, IN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- HFY · Indy South Greenwood, runway 01/19, 5,102 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 22, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 343 total · 69 in this make and model · 321 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- HFY
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 19, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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.
Other investigations on N763LG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.