- Date
- July 3, 1989, 10:20 local (14:20 UTC)
- Place
- Gladwin, MI
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7093KPiper PA-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890703019759A
- Case key
- 14377
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot seated in the left seat of the airplane to use brakes to correct for a left turn caused by a bent tail wheel.
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Landing gear,tailwheel - bentCause
Directional control - not possibleCause
Landing gear,tailwheel assembly - wornCause
Brakes(normal) - unavailableFactor
Brakes(normal) - not usedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Nose over
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7093K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-199
- Airframe hours
- 1,696
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mitchell, Donald W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 28, 1989 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- GDW · Gladwin, MI
- Destination
- NONE · Gladwn, MI
- Airport
- Sugar Springs, runway 9, 3,000 × 90 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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,800 total · 50 in this make and model · 103 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HTL, 17 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.