- Date
- November 2, 2007, 18:28 local (23:28 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N81800Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20071102826459A
- Case key
- 67008
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain direction control. A contributing factor was the tailwind.
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 performing a full-stop landing on runway 17, a 60-foot wide turf runway. On landing roll-out, the tower controller observed the tailwheel-equipped airplane departed the left side of the runway, nosed over, and came to rest in the inverted position. The winds at the time of the accident were from 050 degrees at 4 knots.
Factual narrative
The private pilot was performing a full-stop landing on runway 17, a 60-foot wide turf runway. On landing roll-out, the tower controller observed the tail wheel-equipped airplane departed the left side of the runway, nosed over, and came to rest in the inverted position. The winds at the time of the accident were from 050 degrees at 4 knots. Despite numerous attempts, the pilot failed to provide the NTSB with the required NTSB Form 6120.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81800
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC423
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental O-200, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Schulko, doing business as FlyWithRobert LLC
- Registered owner
- Robert Schulko
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Fort Worth, TX
- Destination
- FWS · Fort Worth, TX
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- FWS · Fort Worth Spinks, runway 17L, 4,000 × 60 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
- 46
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 80° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- FWS
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 N81800 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.