- Date
- April 26, 1991, 10:33 local (15:33 UTC)
- Place
- Evansville, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N61978Taylorcraft BC12-D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910426012769A
- Case key
- 15052
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, not maintaining directional control and attempting a go-around without sufficient airspeed. A factor was the rutted runway surface.
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 was performing crosswind takeoffs and landings at a private airport with a sod runway. The runway was positioned between two fields that were freshly plowed. The tractor which had plowed the fields used the runway as a crossing point between the two fields being plowed creating ruts on its surface. Irrigation equipment stored on the field during the winter months had also left ruts on the runway's surface. During one of the pilot's landings the airplane collided with a rut, bounced into the air. During an attempted go around the airplane drifted to the right side of the runway, descended into the freshly plowed field and flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61978
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BC12-D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7658
- Airframe hours
- 1,207
- Engine
- Continental A-65-8F, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sugar River Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Sugar River Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 1990 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- C37 · Brodhead, WI
- Airport
- 7W18 · Fellows, runway 18, 3,700 × ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 854 total · 44 in this make and model · 814 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- JVL, 11 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.