- Date
- July 17, 2002, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Farmington, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N840BLuscombe 8F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 6, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA-St. Lous, MO-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20020717017009A
- Case key
- 55326
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Probable cause
The locked brake and the aircraft control not being possible due to the locked brake.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The airplane nosed over during landing. The pilot stated that during the landing roll he, "heard a double clunking sound [and] felt my upper body go forward [and] the tail wheel lifted." He said that the airplane skidded nose down before ultimately nosing over. The pilot reported that the brake clip that holds the brake disk in place, "came off and lodged in the wheel causing an abrupt [and] harsh drag on [the] right wheel." The pilot listed having 482 hours of experience is the same make and model airplane as the accident airplane.
Factual narrative
On July 17, 2002, about 1030 central daylight time, a Luscombe 8F, N840B, piloted by a private pilot, sustained substantial damage when it nosed over during landing on runway 20 (4,221 feet by 75 feet, concrete), at the Farmington Regional Airport, Farmington, Missouri. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The pilot was not injured. The local flight originated about 1015.
In a written statement, the pilot stated that during the landing roll he, "heard a double clunking sound [and] felt my upper body go forward [and] the tail wheel lifted." He said that the airplane skidded nose down before ultimately nosing over. The pilot reported that the brake clip that holds the brake disk in place, "came off and lodged in the wheel causing an abrupt [and] harsh drag on [the] right wheel." The pilot listed having 482 hours of experience is the same make and model airplane as the accident airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N840B
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6772
- Airframe hours
- 1,843.6
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul V Graves
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 5, 2002 · 2.6 hours before
- Departed
- FAM · Farmington, MO
- Airport
- FAM · Farmington Regional, runway 20, 4,221 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- June 11, 2001
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 600 total · 482 in this make and model · 600 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- FAM
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 31, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 349 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 N840B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.