- Date
- June 21, 1991, 16:12 local (20:12 UTC)
- Place
- Grayling, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2755CCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910621023349A
- Case key
- 15104
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain directional control during landing roll.
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
On landing roll on runway 14 directional control was lost. The aircraft ground looped. Wind at an airport 25 nautical miles to the south 22 minutes prior to the accident reported wind of 080 degrees at 9 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2755C
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31902
- Airframe hours
- 3,428
- Engine
- Continental O-470-A, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James D. Albers
- Registered owner
- James D. Albers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 10, 1991 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- PTK · Pontiac, MI
- Airport
- SSD · Grayling, runway 14, 5,000 × 150 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,472 total · 45 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Observed at
- HTL, 25 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.