- Date
- April 13, 2023, 10:45 UTC
- Place
- Evansville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N50142Boeing A75N1(PT17)
- 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
- 20230413004839I
- Case key
- 107054
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to engage the tailwheel lock before landing which resulted in the loss of control and ground loop.
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 while performing a three-point landing on runway 18, during the roll out the airplane veered left, exited the runway to the left, and ground looped in the counter-clockwise direction. During the ground loop, the right wing struck the ground and the airplane came to rest upright on the main landing gear. The right aileron sustained substantial damage. After the accident sequence the pilot noted that the tailwheel lock was not fully in the locked position. The pilot was able to taxi the airplane to parking without further incident. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50142
- Reported as
- Boeing A75N1(PT17)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-962
- Built
- 1940
- Airframe hours
- 2,682.2
- Engine
- Continental W670-6N, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Evansville P-47 Foundation Inc
- Registered owner
- Evansville P-47 Foundation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 2022 · 10.7 hours before
- Departed
- 3EV · Evansville, IN
- Destination
- EEV · Evansville, IN
- Airport
- EVV · Evansville Rgnl, runway 18, 6,286 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 73
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- November 28, 2022
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 5,070 total · 18 in this make and model · 5,062 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KEVV, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KEVV 131554Z 10SM CLR 23/04 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP155 T02330044
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 7, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.9 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.