- Date
- May 23, 1987, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mckinney, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N777HLNorth American SNJ-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870523015789A
- Case key
- 22169
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot reportedly made a normal touchdown in a calm wind condition. During the landing rollout,however, he applied excessive braking. This caused the tail wheel equipped aircraft to nose over into an inverted attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N777HL
- Reported as
- North American SNJ-5
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 42 85008
- Airframe hours
- 5
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Andres U. Katz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 27, 1987 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Destination
- TX05 · Mckinney, TX
- Airport
- TX05 · Aero Country, runway 35, 2,950 × 40 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 150 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAL, 28 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.