- Date
- August 9, 1992, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Alexandria, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N226HBSchneider/Brashear Sorrell SNS-7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920809029759A
- Case key
- 15249
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the 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
The pilot stated '...during the rollout with the tailwheel on the ground the aircraft became uncontrollable and turned to the right.' The aircraft turned about 270 degrees before it came to a stop. The left main landing gear collapsed during the turn. The pilot landed on runway 13. The winds were reported to be out of 340 degrees at 7 to 8 knots. There was no evidence of pre-existing mechanical anomaly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N226HB
- Reported as
- Schneider/Brashear Sorrell SNS-7 (SORRELL SN)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 226
- Airframe hours
- 520
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1D6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Olson, Eugene And Darlene
- Registered owner
- Olson, Eugene And Darlene
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 25, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- AXN · Chandler Field, runway 13, 5,180 × 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
- 60
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21,775 total · 250 in this make and model · 12,857 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AXN, 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.