- Date
- October 8, 2011, 15:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Starkville, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5424ECessna 188
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 27, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20111008028299A
- Case key
- 82550
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 of the airplane during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion.
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
According to the operator, the pilot performed a normal landing in the tailwheel-equipped airplane. During the rollout, the airplane began to veer to the left, and the pilot attempted unsuccessfully to arrest the turn by applying right rudder and right brake. The airplane continued off the left side of the runway and struck a ditch, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing. Postaccident examination of the wreckage did not reveal any preexisting mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
According to the operator, the pilot performed a normal landing in the tail-wheel equipped airplane. During the subsequent rollout, the airplane began to veer to the left and the pilot attempted unsuccessfully to arrest the turn by applying right rudder and right brake. The airplane continued until it departed the runway and struck a ditch approximately 40 feet beyond the left side of the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing. Postaccident examination of the wreckage by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector did not reveal any preexisting mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5424E
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 651
- Airframe hours
- 1,056
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Flight test · Part 91
- Operator
- Mississippi State University
- Registered owner
- Mississippi State University
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 10, 2011
- Departed
- STF · Starkville, MS
- Destination
- STF · Starkville, MS
- Airport
- STF · Starkville Bryan Field, runway 18, 4,120 × 150 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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 6, 2010
- Seat
- Single
- Flight hours
- 4,788 total · 90 in this make and model · 4,432 as pilot in command · 81 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- STF
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 30, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 554 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.