- Date
- September 26, 2022, 13:39 local (18:39 UTC)
- Place
- Williston, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N93330Cessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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 Fargo FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220926020339A
- Case key
- 106076
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing, which resulted in a ground loop.
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 while the airplane was settling to the runway and he was making rudder corrections, a gust of wind lifted the left wing and the left main landing gear from the runway. The pilot was able to get the left main landing gear back on the runway, while still applying right rudder input. The airplane then ground looped, and the left wing and the left rudder impacted the runway. The airplane came to rest upright on the runway and the pilot was then able to taxi to the ramp. The airplane’s left wing and the left elevator sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the airplane was landing on runway 32 with winds light and variable with gusts to 7 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93330
- Reported as
- Cessna 180 (UNDESIGNATED SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31731
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 4,689.3
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-520-F, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jarvys Consulting LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 2022
- Airport
- XWA · Williston Basin Intl, runway 32, 7,503 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 16, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 72.4 total · 53.1 in this make and model · 11.5 as pilot in command · 2.4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KS25, 34 nm away
- METAR
- KS25 261835Z AUTO 35009KT 10SM CLR 21/01 A3012 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 7, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 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 N93330 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.