- Date
- August 9, 2020, 14:43 local (18:43 UTC)
- Place
- Monongahela, PA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N321CCubcrafters CC11-160
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 101764
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Probable cause
The pilot's premature application of brakes during landing, which resulted in a nose-over event.
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane was performing a wheel landing to the turf adjacent to an asphalt runway. Prior to the tailwheel contacting the ground, the pilot moved his toes to top the rudder pedals and inadvertently applied the brakes. The airplane then nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the left-wing strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N321C
- Reported as
- Cubcrafters CC11-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC11-00407
- Built
- 2016
- Airframe hours
- 455.1
- Engine
- Titan OX-340CC-B3J4, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · June 4, 2020
- Departed
- 31D · Irwin, PA
- Destination
- FWQ · Monongahela, PA
- Airport
- FWQ · Rostraver
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 74
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Sport Pilot, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,798 total · 101 in this make and model · 1,567 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KAGC, 10 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 15, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.1 MB in all.