- Date
- October 10, 1994, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mt. Horeb, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N933EBGreat Lakes 2T-1A-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19941010037629A
- Case key
- 9776
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Probable cause
the pilot's excessive braking while taxiing from landing.
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 tailwheel airplane nosed-over on the private grass airstrip while taxiing after landing. The pilot reported the airplane's brakes were sensitive, and that she inadvertently applied excessive brake pedal pressure while taxiing, causing the airplane to nose-over.
Factual narrative
On October 10, 1994, about 1330 central daylight time, A Great Lakes model 2T-1A-2 airplane, N933EB, sustained substantial damage when it nosed-over while taxiing from landing at a private airstrip near Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. The Airline Transport certificated pilot and the sole passenger aboard reported no injuries. The local pleasure flight departed Racine, Wisconsin about 1215, and operated in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan.
The pilot reported she applied the brakes excessively while taxiing from landing and the airplane nosed-over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N933EB
- Reported as
- Great Lakes 2T-1A-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1006
- Airframe hours
- 649
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-B1G6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Susan K. Schwaab
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Provisional (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 11, 1993 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- RAC · Racine, WI
- Airport
- Private, runway 14, 1,800 × 40 ft, grass/turf
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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 6,200 total · 200 in this make and model · 3,600 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.