- Date
- September 18, 2024, 09:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Dyersburg, TN · Runway 4
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N195KWCessna 195
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- 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
- 20240918013199A
- Case key
- 195143
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
Failure of the tailwheel strut, which resulted in a loss of directional control during landing roll and a runway excursion.
Findings · 1
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 vintage tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that during landing roll, he heard a “pop,” followed by an uncommanded right turn. He was unable to correct the turn, and the airplane departed the right side of the runway. The left main landing gear subsequently collapsed on a taxiway, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. Examination of the wreckage by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the tailwheel strut had failed and was in an overextended position, which locked the tailwheel in a right turn. The inspector added that the tailwheel strut had been rebuilt about 15 years and 500 operating hours prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N195KW
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7242
- Built
- 1948
- Airframe hours
- 4,140
- Engine
- Jacobs R755 B2, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 8, 2024 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- FYE · Somerville, TN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- DYR · Dyersburg Regional Airport, runway 4, 5,698 × 98 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B
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
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 9, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 19,024 total · 668 in this make and model · 12,194 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DYR
- METAR
- KDYR 181456Z AUTO 09004KT 10SM CLR 24/17 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP162 6//// T02390172 51009 PNO $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 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.