- Date
- June 23, 2021, 17:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Jefferson, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4134EAeronca 11CC
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- FAA report
- 20210623010359A
- Case key
- 103325
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control upon landing.
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 tailwheel-equipped airplane was a recent purchase by the pilot owner, but he lacked both tailwheel experience and an endorsement to fly tailwheel-configured airplanes. The flight instructor who agreed to help ferry the airplane back to the owner’s home airport had considerable tailwheel experience, but none in the accident airplane make and model. On the leg prior to the accident flight, the instructor ground-looped the airplane upon landing without damaging the airplane. On the accident landing, the airplane “shot to the left” and the instructor added power for an aborted landing, but the airplane exited the runway and struck low trees and brush where it came to rest suspended upright. After the accident, the instructor explained there were no mechanical deficiencies with the airplane and a checkout and differences training in the accident airplane prior to departure should have been part of his pre-mission planning.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4134E
- Reported as
- Aeronca 11CC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11CC-42
- Built
- 1947
- Airframe hours
- 10,377
- Engine
- Continental C85-8F, 85 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- David Pierce
- Registered owner
- David Pierce
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 25, 2020
- Departed
- 0VG · Jonesville, VA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- GEV · Ashe County, runway 10/28, 5,002 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 3,005 total · 5 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- KTNB, 18 nm away
- METAR
- KTNB 232110Z AUTO 15007KT 110V180 10SM 21/12 A3028 RMK AO2 T02080121
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 28, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 MB 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.