- Date
- June 23, 2024, 09:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Leavenworth, KS
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N74CFCessna A185F
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- 20240623012069A
- Case key
- 194533
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 after landing.
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
The pilot reported that after he landed, the airplane bounced once, contacted the runway again, and then immediately veered to the right. The pilot attempted to correct by adding full left rudder and left brake; however, the airplane did not respond to the control inputs and continued to slide to the right. The left wing struck the runway, and the left wheel contacted a berm adjacent to the runway. The left wheel separated from the landing gear, and the airplane flipped over onto its back and came to rest inverted in the grass next to the runway. The vertical stabilizer and rudder were substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N74CF
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502557
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 3,889
- Engine
- Continental IO550D1B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wincar Air LLC
- Registered owner
- Wincar Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2024 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- KHSI · Hastings, NE
- Destination
- KFLV · Leavenworth, KS
- Airport
- FLV · Sherman Field, runway 34, 5,318 × 102 ft, concrete
- 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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 10, 2023
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total · 1,620 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KMCI, 10 nm away
- METAR
- KMCI 231453Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 26/13 A2997
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 30, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.7 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.