- Date
- December 26, 2022, 13:30, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Navasota, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N26625Taylorcraft BF
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration, Houston FSDO
- Case key
- 106509
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The student pilot failed to maintain directional control during landing.
Findings · 1
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 flight instructor reported that during landing rollout on the instructional flight with a student pilot, the student pilot lost directional control of the airplane. They attempted to regain control, but the airplane departed the runway. The student pilot then applied the brakes and the airplane nosed over coming to rest inverted in the adjacent field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing and engine mount. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident failures of malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26625
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BF
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 2,700
- Engine
- Continental, 65 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- 96000 Aircraft LLC
- Registered owner
- 96000 Aircraft LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2022
- Departed
- 89TA · Waller, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 60R · Navasota Municipal Airport, runway 17, 4,500 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 79
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 15, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total · 500 in this make and model · 5,300 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Medical
- Sport pilot, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 4 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 3 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Observed at
- 11R, 16 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 MB in all.