- Date
- January 18, 1989, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Farmington, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2652NCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890118001209A
- Case key
- 17664
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Probable cause
Improper use of brakes which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve.
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 private plt was practicing landings on rwy 25. During a landing, he applied left braking to turn off onto a taxiway. The plt said that he added right braking to correct and the acft ground looped to the right. As the acft departed the right side of the rwy, the left main gear collapsed. The fuselage and both wings were bent.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2652N
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12910
- Airframe hours
- 6,704
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David M. Thomas
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 2, 1988
- Departed
- FMN
- Destination
- FMN
- Airport
- FMN · Farmington, runway 25, 6,700 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 28 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMN, 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.
Other investigations on N2652N · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.