- Date
- January 17, 2023, 14:44, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Brush, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N41529Piper PA-18-150
- 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
- FAA report
- 20230117000239A
- Case key
- 106590
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 failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with strong gusty surface winds.
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 of the tail wheel-equipped airplane reported that during the landing roll, when the airplane was slowed to taxi speed, it began to drift left. The pilot was unable to maintain directional control of the airplane and it exited the runway to the left. During the runway excursion, the airplane entered a snow-covered field adjacent to the runway, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wing struts and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident 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 25 with wind variable at 20-25 knots, gusting to 35 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41529
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1809036
- Built
- 1989
- Airframe hours
- 6,825
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C4P, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Public use
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 4, 2022
- Departed
- KAKO · Akron, CO
- Destination
- KLHX · La Junta, CO
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 7V5 · Brush Municipal Airport, runway 07/25, 4,300 × 60 ft, snow
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Onboard weather
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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Remote, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2
- Last flight review
- August 26, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total · 250 in this make and model · 5,000 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 2970.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KFMM, 11 nm away
- METAR
- SA 17/01/2023 22:15->METAR KFMM 172215Z AUTO 08011KT 6SM BR OVC006 M02/M02 A2970 RMK AO2 SA 17/01/2023 21:55->METAR KFMM 172155Z AUTO 07011KT 7SM OVC007 M02/M02 A2968 RMK AO2 SA 17/01/2023 21:35->METAR KFMM 172135Z AUTO 08010KT 7SM OVC008 M02/M02 A2969 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 2, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.8 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.