- Date
- July 19, 2024, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Greenville, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1524DCessna 195A
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240719009589A
- Case key
- 194750
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing which led to a ground-loop.
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 upon landing the tailwheel equipped airplane swerved to the left and he applied right rudder and brake to correct. The airplane then ground looped to the right before coming to a stop. The pilot was able to taxi to parking. The pilot believed that the left tire of the airplane was flat which caused him to lose directional control of the airplane. The airplane received substantial damage to the fuselage. Examination of the runway revealed that skid marks were produced by both main landing gear tires at various times before the ground-loop occurred, and that the left tire was not flat until it was side-loaded during the event. The pilot did not submit the National Transportation Safety Board Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report Form 6120.1.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1524D
- Reported as
- Cessna 195A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7746
- Built
- 1952
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-9, 245 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 0I8 · Cynthiana, KY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 6D6 · Greenville Muni, runway 10/28, 4,199 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KGRR, 20 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KGRR 191853Z VRB04KT 10SM FEW055 25/12 A3017 RMK AO2 SLP213 T02500117=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 6, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 603 KB 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.
Other investigations on N1524D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.