- Date
- August 3, 1982, 15:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place
- Geneva, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N693RBThorp T-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 3, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 70819
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During landing, the aircraft touched down about 1/3 of the way down the runway. The pilot reported that after touchdown, he applied the brakes intermittently, but there was little effect on the dry, hard, grassy surface. When it became apparent that he would be unable to stop on the runway by using normal braking, he attempted to intentionally ground loop the plane. He claimed that the right brake line burst. The aircraft continued through a barbed wire fence, crossed a narrow road and went into a field of tall goldenrod where the wheels became entangled and the aircraft turned over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N693RB
- Reported as
- Thorp T-18
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 693
- Airframe hours
- 124
- Engine
- Lycoming O-324, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- R.R. Bender
- Registered owner
- R.R. Bender
- Departed
- Dansville, NY
- Destination
- Trumbull, Genev, OH
- Airport
- Trumbull (Pvt), runway 36, 2,500 × 0 ft, grass/turf
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,020 total · 124 in this make and model · 903 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Temperature
- 181 °F