- Date
- September 1, 1988, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Welsh, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9730GCessna 180H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880901037019A
- Case key
- 22682
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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 was landing the tailwheel type airplane on runway 6 while the winds were from 270 degrees at 15 knots, gusting to 25 knots. After touchdown, it ballooned several feet, touched on the left wheel, then the left wing tip and flipped forward to the inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9730G
- Reported as
- Cessna 180H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052230
- Airframe hours
- 5,035
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Miller, Robert H.
- Registered owner
- Miller, R. H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 10, 1988 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- NONE · Eunice, LA
- Airport
- 6R1 · Welsh, runway 6, 2,700 × 50 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 387 total · 77 in this make and model · 387 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.