- Date
- April 23, 1989, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lansing, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N455RTWaco YMF
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890423009629A
- Case key
- 14342
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, and his excessive brake application as the aircraft departed the runway, which resulted in the aircraft nosing over. The pilot's inexperience in taildragger aircraft, and the inadequate supervision on the part of the check pilot were contributing factors.
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
While on an aircraft familiarization flight, during the landing roll, the pilot-in-command allowed the aircraft to drift to the left and depart the left side of the runway. As the aircraft departed the runway, the pilot applied both brakes 'hard', and the aircraft nosed over in the grass. The check pilot in the front seat had no access to brake pedals.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N455RT
- Reported as
- Waco YMF
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F5-018
- Airframe hours
- 4
- Engine
- Jacobs 755-B, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tarrson, Ronald
- Registered owner
- Ret Butler Comm. Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1989 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- 2D8 · East Lansing, MI
- Destination
- LAN · Lansing, MI
- Airport
- LAN · Lansing-Capital City, runway 10R, 7,251 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,444 total · 4 in this make and model · 1,285 as pilot in command · 61 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.