- Date
- June 15, 2024, 12:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place
- Schell City, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N82SCRobert L Staton Javron INC PA-18 REP
- 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, Kansas City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240615018489A
- Case key
- 194482
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 landing that resulted in a ground loop and impact with the runway surface.
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 front seat pilot reported that he flew a stable approach with the airplane configured with one notch of wing flaps for landing on runway 18 at the destination airport. He applied control input to compensate for a crosswind, and the airplane touched down on the left main landing gear wheel followed by the right main landing gear wheel and tailwheel. During the landing rollout and at an airplane speed of about 15-18 mph, a gust of wind swung the airplane’s tail to the right. The pilot reacted but quickly ran out of rudder authority and the airplane ground looped. The right main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane right wing impacted the runway resulting in substantial damage to the right wing and right aileron. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunction/failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot stated that while standing on the runway, the winds were gusting from 120o.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N82SC
- Reported as
- Robert L Staton Javron INC PA-18 REP
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- JA1812128
- Built
- 2021
- Airframe hours
- 269
- Engine
- Continental Titan OX-370-JFD7T8, 185 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 24, 2024
- Departed
- MYJ · Mexico, MO
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- IXD · New Century AirCenter Airport, runway 18, 7,339 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display
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
- Pilot
- Age
- 71
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 26, 2023
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,233 total · 20 in this make and model · 1,063 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 7, 2023
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 187 total · 69 in this make and model · 11 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- IXD
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 1, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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.