- Date
- October 27, 2005, 08:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Brainerd, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- CF-JVTPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration - Minneapolis FSDO
- Case key
- 62770
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent brake application during the takeoff roll, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent ground loop.
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 ground looped during the takeoff roll. The pilot reported that after he applied engine power for the takeoff run, the airplane "started to the left, I overcorrected to the right, and then overcorrected to the left." The pilot stated that he attempted to abort the takeoff, but the airplane "ground looped to the left" before he could regain directional control. The pilot said that he "did not make sure [his] heels were on the floor and off the heel brakes, prior to takeoff."
Factual narrative
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Aircraft
- Registration
- CF-JVT
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12-3125
- Airframe hours
- 4,200.1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-B, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas Edward Goodwater
- Registered owner
- Mark Criger
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2005 · 6.4 hours before
- Departed
- BRD · Brainerd, MN
- Destination
- LNK · Lincoln, NE
- Airport
- BRD · Brainerd Lakes Regional, runway 5, 6,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 1, 2005
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,320 total · 3 in this make and model · 3,062 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 1.75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- BRD