- Date
- August 21, 2001, 19:20 local (Aug 22, 2001, 00:20 UTC)
- Place
- Carbondale, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N202SHHoskins Quickie Q2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA- Springfield, Illinois -FSDO
- FAA report
- 20010821025729A
- Case key
- 53085
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Probable cause
The failure of the tailwheel spring. A factor was the directional control not possible by the pilot.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The airplane went off the right side of the runway during landing and the left canard/landing gear was broken. The amateur-built airplane utilizes a canard configuration with the two main wheels incorporated into the tips of the forward canard surface and a tail-wheel attached to the aft fuselage. A postaccident examination of the aircraft revealed that the fiberglass tail-wheel spring had fractured just forward of the tailwheel swivel assembly. The rudder cables were routed from the rudder pedals to the tail-wheel swivel assembly and two separate cables ran from the tail-wheel swivel assembly to the rudder itself. No other anomalies were found that could be associated with a preexisting condition.
Factual narrative
On August 21, 2001, at 1920 central daylight time, an amateur-built Hoskins Quickie Q2, N202SH, owned and piloted by a private pilot, sustained substantial damage during landing on runway 18R (3,498 feet by 60 feet, asphalt), at the Southern Illinois Airport, Carbondale, Illinois. The airplane went off the right side of the runway and the left canard/landing gear was broken. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions and was not on a flight plan. The pilot and his one passenger reported no injuries. The local flight originated about 1800.
The airplane is an amateur-built aircraft utilizing a canard configuration. The landing gear consists of two main wheels incorporated into the tips of the forward canard surface and a tail-wheel attached to the aft fuselage.
A postaccident examination of the aircraft revealed that the fiberglass tail-wheel spring had fractured just forward of the tailwheel swivel assembly. The rudder cables were routed from the rudder pedals to the tail-wheel swivel assembly and two separate cables ran from the tail-wheel swivel assembly to the rudder itself. No other anomalies were found that could be associated with a preexisting condition.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N202SH
- Reported as
- Hoskins Quickie Q2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2614
- Airframe hours
- 1,214
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Samuel R. Hoskins
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 16, 2001 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- MDH · Carbondale, IL
- Destination
- MDH · Carbondale, IL
- Airport
- MDH · Southern Illinois, runway 18R, 3,498 × 60 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- July 10, 1999
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,610 total · 1,214 in this make and model · 28 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- MDH
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 N202SH · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.