- Date
- May 30, 2026, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Homestead, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N77061Cessna 140
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 8, 2026
- 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
- 20260530011709A
- Case key
- 203692
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
The pilot’s excessive braking during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over.
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
A flight instructor was giving instruction to a private pilot toward a tailwheel endorsement. The pilot stated that during the landing, she applied excessive pressure to the brakes and the airplane to nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage, vertical stabilizer, and rudder. The airplane came to rest on the runway inverted. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N77061
- Reported as
- Cessna 140 (UNDESIGNATED SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11515
- Built
- 1946
- Airframe hours
- 5,329
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 19, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- X51 · Miami Homestead General Aviation, runway 36, 4,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 1, 2026
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 261 in this make and model · 1,430 as pilot in command · 164 in the last 90 days · 31 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 19
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 23, 2026
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 133 total · 133 in this make and model · 38 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 0 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- AAF, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KAAF 301353Z AUTO 06006KT 10SM FEW018 28/25 A3008 RMK AO1 SLP186 T02780250=
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 8, 2026, 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.