- Date
- June 13, 1991, 15:33 local (19:33 UTC)
- Place
- Detroit, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4351VCessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910613021729A
- Case key
- 15095
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Probable cause
Failure to maintain directional control, and inadequate aircraft preflight. A factor related to the accident is the instructor pilot's lack of experience in the type aircraft.
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
Certified flight instructor was checking the owner out in the aircraft. Instructor stated that the aircraft was very difficult to handle on the ground below 30 miles per hour. On landing rollout the aircraft began to turn to the left when speed got below 30 miles per hours. Pilot could not correct with rudder and braking. The aircraft departed the left side of the runway and the right main landing gear collapsed. Investigation revealed that the tailwheel oleo strut was not properly inflated. This condition renders the tailwheel steering, and the tailwheel locking inoperative. The flight instructor had three hours experience in this model aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4351V
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7260
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755 A2, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Henry M. Keating
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- DET · Detroit City, runway 15, 5,090 × 100 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
- 50
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 10,900 total · 3 in this make and model · 10,787 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DET, 1 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.
Other investigations on N4351V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.