- Date
- August 3, 1988, 12:28 local (18:28 UTC)
- Place
- Watkins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N195RCCessna 195B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880803030169A
- Case key
- 17517
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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 new owner of the acft was receiving flt training from an instructor (CFI) & they were practicing landings. Drg a landing roll-out, the acft began to veer to the right. The CFI took the controls to avoid running off the rwy, then took off & flew another pattern. On final apch, the student took the controls again to make the next landing. During the roll-out, the airplane again started a sharp right turn. The CFI rprtd that full left rudder & brake did not stop the turn & the acft departed the runway to the right. The left main gear collapsed as the acft went off the rwy. Also, the left wing, elevator, fuselage & cabin area were damaged. The CFI noted that the owner was of small stature & the seat height was not adjustable. The CFI had warned the owner that the 'cleveland brakes' were very powerful & efficient. He believed the owner may have inadvertently applied rgt brake while applying left rudder.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N195RC
- Reported as
- Cessna 195B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16102
- Airframe hours
- 3,701
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-B2, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sauls, Norris J., Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 29, 1988 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- 1W1
- Destination
- APA
- Airport
- 1W1 · Front Range, runway 26, 8,000 × 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
- 71
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,391 total · 571 in this make and model · 7,341 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.