- Date
- June 7, 2024, 18:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Shuteston, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N768WMBoeing E75
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240607008309A
- Case key
- 194419
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 failure to maintain directional control while landing on a wet grass strip.
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
While performing a full stop landing to a wet grass strip in a tailwheel-equipped airplane, the pilot reported the airplane’s left wheel contacted soft soil. Directional control of the airplane was lost as it veered left and entered a water filled ditch on the left side of the runway resulting in the airplane nosing over and coming to rest inverted. The airplane’s vertical stabilizer and rudder sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that contributed to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N768WM
- Reported as
- Boeing E75
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-7394
- Built
- 1942
- Airframe hours
- 5,899.5
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney R985-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tailwinds Air Inc
- Registered owner
- Tailwinds Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 3, 2023
- Departed
- 51LS · Sunset, LA
- Airport
- 5LA9 · Ron, runway 18/36, 2,600 × 80 ft, grass/turf
- 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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 27, 2022
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 7,520 total · 1,100 in this make and model · 7,520 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.91 inHg
- Observed at
- KOPL, 7 nm away
- METAR
- KOPL 071110Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/21 A2991 RMK AO2 T02150208
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 25, 2024, 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.