- Date
- March 14, 1991, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Flushing, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1406KLuscombe 8E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910314009279A
- Case key
- 15031
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain proper runway alignment and not maintaining directional control which resulted in a ground loop. Factors relating to this accident were the gusty crosswind conditions which existed at the time.
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
The pilot of a single engined tailwheel airplane did not attain proper alignment while performing a crosswind landing in gusty conditions. Airplane control was not maintained and the airplane groundlooped, collapsing the main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1406K
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4133
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph J. Heystek
- Registered owner
- Joseph J. Heystek
- Airport
- 3DA · Dalton, runway 36, 1,740 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,922 total · 1,842 in this make and model · 1,890 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 35° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 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.
Other investigations on N1406K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.