- Date
- April 8, 1986, 17:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Del Rio, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2360BTemco GC-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860408011979A
- Case key
- 22012
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was being instructed in the landing of a tail dragger aircraft, when he lost control of the aircraft at touchdown. The instructor failed to take corrective action when the student pilot inadvertently applied left brake, causing the aircraft to ground loop to the left and slide 200 feet down the runway, damaging the main gear and fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2360B
- Reported as
- Temco GC-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3660
- Airframe hours
- 2,450
- Engine
- Continental C-125-2, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Del Rio Flying Serv.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- DRT · Del Rio, runway 31, 5,105 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,300 total · 50 in this make and model · 6,160 as pilot in command · 240 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 5° at 1 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DRT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.