- Date
- December 27, 2010, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Williamson, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3464VCessna 195
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 20, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA Atlanta FSDO
- Case key
- 78465
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent application of the brakes during a bounced landing resulting in a nose over.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The airplane touched down on the grass runway and bounced. The pilot inadvertently applied brakes and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained structural damage to the wings and tail section. The pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The airplane touched down on the grass runway and bounced. The pilot inadvertently applied brakes and the airplane nosed over inverted. The airplane sustained structural damage to the wings and tail section. The pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3464V
- Reported as
- Cessna 195 (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7161
- Airframe hours
- 2,206
- Engine
- Jacobs, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Noel A. Poirier
- Registered owner
- Noel A. Poirier
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 2010 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- GA2 · Williamson, GA
- Destination
- GA2 · Williamson, GA
- Airport
- GA2 · Peach State Airport, runway 31, 2,400 × 100 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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial, Private, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Last flight review
- December 14, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 4 in this make and model · 9,500 as pilot in command · 245 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 15 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- ATL, 27 nm away
Other investigations on N3464V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.