- Date
- May 26, 1990, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Morgan, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1113BLuscombe 8F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900526017449A
- Case key
- 17936
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Probable cause
Pilot's improper use of the brakes during landing roll.
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 pilot was practicing touch and go landings. According to the pilot, on the last landing, he applied the brakes too hard and the plane nosed over, coming to rest inverted on the runway. The cowling, skin and the vertical stabilizer were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1113B
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5740
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Douglas H. Harris
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- 42U
- Destination
- 42U
- Airport
- 42U · Morgan County, runway 21, 3,800 × 50 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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 95 total · 9 in this make and model · 95 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N1113B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.