- Date
- February 25, 2024, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Moultonborough, NH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N43892Taylorcraft BC12-D
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240225001739A
- Case key
- 193847
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Probable cause
The pilots’ failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing.
Findings · 3
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 flight instructor was providing initial tailwheel training to another pilot (who also held a flight instructor certificate). After practicing maneuvers in the local area, they practiced three uneventful landings. During the next landing, as the airplane was slowing down, it started to veer to the left. The flight instructor directed the pilot to apply right rudder, but she overcorrected. The flight instructor then called for left rudder application, but the pilot again overcorrected, so the flight instructor again called for right rudder. The pilot did not respond and the instructor repeated his instructions, with no response received. He then called for a transfer of control and applied right rudder, but described feeling “heavy resistance.” Despite pushing on the pedal, the airplane continued to the left, departed the runway surface and impacted trees. The airplane’s wings and fuselage were substantially damaged during the accident. The flight instructor reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N43892
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BC12-D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7551
- Built
- 1946
- Airframe hours
- 1,574
- Engine
- Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- None
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 5, 2023
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 4MB · Moultonborough, runway 02/20, 3,505 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 20, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 431 total · 1 in this make and model · 244 as pilot in command
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- May 1, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 13,835 total · 136 in this make and model · 12,212 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LCI, 12 nm away
- METAR
- KLCI 252056Z AUTO 21006KT 10SM CLR 01/M16 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP168 T00111156 56015 FZRANO $
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 18, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 216 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.
Other investigations on N43892 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.