- Date
- November 9, 2022, 11:30, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Bridgeport, TX · runway excursion
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1855KLuscombe 8E
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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 Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20221109019039A
- Case key
- 106272
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of control due to a wind gust during landing.
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 after a “normal” approach and landing, a “strong” wind gust “picked up the right wing.” The airplane entered a left skidding turn and departed the runway pavement. The right main landing gear collapsed in the grass area adjacent to the runway, and the airplane pitched up onto its nose before settling back onto the tail. The right-wing spar and fuselage sustained damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 18 with wind from 190o at 7 knots, gusts to 15 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1855K
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4582
- Built
- 1947
- Airframe hours
- 3,201
- Engine
- Continental C85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 11, 2022
- Departed
- 3T6 · Justin, TX
- Destination
- XBP · Bridgeport, TX
- Airport
- KXBP · Bridgeport Municipal, runway 18, 5,005 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 71
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 15, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 25,202 total · 13 in this make and model · 12,157 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 14 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.16 inHg
- Observed at
- KXBP
- METAR
- METAR KXBP 091735Z AUTO 17014G21KT 10SM SCT031 25/16 A3016
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 25, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 14.3 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.