- Date
- January 14, 1993, 14:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- Madison, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18MDon Showalter Lancair 320
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930114000349A
- Case key
- 15650
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Probable cause
A jammed main landing gear brake.
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 accident airplane collided with a snowbank after losing directional control during a landing roll. A post accident inspection revealed the left main landing gear brake assembly packed with snow and ice. After the snow and ice was removed the wheel turned freely. The airplane had departed from a snow covered runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18M
- Reported as
- Don Showalter Lancair 320 (LANCAIR 32)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Airframe hours
- 130
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald F. Showalter
- Registered owner
- Donald F. Showalter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 24, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- INL · Int. Falls, MN
- Airport
- MSN · Dane County Regional, runway 22, 4,699 × 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
- 45
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,369 total · 131 in this make and model · 2,300 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSN, 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.