- Date
- December 13, 1990, 16:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Mundelein, IL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N71207Luscombe 8E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901213053939A
- Case key
- 14970
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Probable cause
Landing gear tire failure and directional control not maintained by the pic/cfi.
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
During a dual instructional flight, directional control was lost during the roll-out, and the acft veered off the runway and nosed over. Post accident investigation revealed the right main gear tire to be flat.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71207
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2634
- Engine
- Continental C-85, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carl Larson
- Departed
- LL09 · Mundelein, IL
- Airport
- LL09 · Air Estates, runway 18, 2,000 × 100 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
- 44
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,442 total · 163 in this make and model · 4,247 as pilot in command · 84 in the last 90 days · 53 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.