- Date
- October 15, 2011, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, MS
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4764UCessna 180H
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 28, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA Jackson FSDO
- FAA report
- 20111015024829A
- Case key
- 82073
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot did not maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 2
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 pilot stated that he initiated a straight in approach for landing. During the landing roll, the airplane developed a shimmy and veered to the left. The pilot applied right rudder and engaged the tailwheel lock, but the airplane continued to the left, the right main wheel separated from the strut, and the right strut collapsed into the cockpit. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed structural damage to the right wing, elevator and right side of the fuselage. The pilot stated that the airplane did not experience any mechanical problems prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
The pilots stated he initiated a straight in approach for landing. On landing roll out, the airplane developed a shimmy and veered to the left. He applied right rudder and engaged the tail wheel lock. The airplane continued to the left, the right main wheel separated from the strut and the right strut collapsed into the cockpit. Examination of the airplane revealed structural damage to the right wing, elevator and right side of the fuselage.The pilot stated the airplane did not experience any mechanical problems prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4764U
- Reported as
- Cessna 180H (2800)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051464
- Airframe hours
- 3,170
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 2011 · 74 hours before
- Departed
- HAB · Hamilton, AL
- Destination
- M44 · Houston, MS
- Airport
- M44 · Houston Municipal Airport, runway 21, 3,800 × 75 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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Military, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 26, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,255 total · 74 in this make and model · 342 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Observed at
- TUP, 29 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 3, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 286 KB in all.
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 N4764U · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.