- Date
- October 11, 1993, 18:00 local (Oct 12, 1993, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wall, SD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4788QCessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 7, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19931011038509A
- Case key
- 9411
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. A factor related to the accident was: the pilot's lack of familiarity with the type (make and model) of airplane.
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 had just purchased the airplane and was flying it from the point of purchase in winner, south dakota, to his home in Montana. While landing at the first en route stop, he lost directional control, the airplane departed the runway, and the left main landing gear collapsed. In a statement, the pilot said he attempted to make a three point landing, when he should have made wheel landings until he was more familiar with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On October 11, 1993, at 1800 mountain daylight time, a Cessna A188B, N4788Q, sustained substantial damage when the left main landing gear collapsed, after the airplane departed the runway during landing rollout at the Wall Municipal Airport, Wall, South Dakota. The commercial pilot was not injured. The personal flight originated at Winner, South Dakota. No flight plan was filed, and visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time.
The pilot had just purchased the airplane and was flying it to his home in Montana. He reported directional control was lost when the airplane started skidding to the right. In a written statement he said: "I was attempting a 3 point landing. I should have attempted wheel landings until [I was] more familiar with this aircraft."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4788Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802530T
- Airframe hours
- 2,558
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas L. Hlavnicka
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Provisional (Special); Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 1993 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- SD39 · Winner, SD
- Destination
- 6V4
- Airport
- 6V4 · Wall Muni, runway 12, 3,500 × 60 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 4 in this make and model · 1,400 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 16 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAP, 35 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 N4788Q · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.