- Date
- May 31, 2013, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Concord, NH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2724XCessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130531021999A
- Case key
- 87079
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Probable cause
The pilot’s delayed remedial action following a loss of 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 reported that during the landing roll, the tailwheel-equipped airplane began to “fishtail” and drift toward the side of the runway. The pilot attempted to correct the oscillation by applying the brakes, but was “slightly late” in applying the correction and the airplane departed the side of the runway. After becoming partially buried in the soft ground, the right main landing gear collapsed, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage at the right main landing gear attach point as well as the engine firewall. The pilot reported there were no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation of the airplane.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing roll, the tailwheel-equipped airplane began to “fishtail” and drift toward the side of the runway. The pilot attempted to correct the oscillation by applying the brakes, but was “slightly late” in applying the correction and the airplane departed the side of the runway. After becoming partially buried in the soft ground, the right main landing gear collapsed, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage at the right main landing gear attach point as well as the engine firewall. The pilot reported there were no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2724X
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051524
- Airframe hours
- 4,383
- Engine
- Continental Motors O-470R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Comfort Kenneth W
- Registered owner
- Comfort Kenneth W
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 2013
- Departed
- 2B7 · Pittsfield, MA
- Destination
- CON · Concord, NH
- Airport
- CON · Concord Municipal Airport, runway 35, 6,005 × 100 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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 1, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 380 total · 240 in this make and model · 295 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- CON
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 20, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 986 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 N2724X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.