- Date
- June 18, 1989, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Alliance, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49JCCox/Pitts Special S-1S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890618020669A
- Case key
- 14188
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain proper runway alignment. The soft terrain was a related factor.
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.
Nose over
Terrain condition - softFactor
Proper alignment - not maintainedCause
Analysis
The pilot was completing a landing, when he allowed the main landing gear of the aircraft to track off the hard surfaced runway & onto soft terrain. The aircraft then nosed over & was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49JC
- Reported as
- Cox/Pitts Special S-1S (SPECIAL S-)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 70048
- Airframe hours
- 675
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-H1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- American Winds Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 15, 1989 · 100 hours before
- Airport
- 4G3 · Berlin Airpark, runway 27, 2,930 × 50 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 180 in this make and model · 2,300 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.