- Date
- June 3, 1990, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1615BLuscombe 11
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900603017909A
- Case key
- 23135
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Probable cause
Loss of control on the ground, due to a locked left brake, undetermined reasons.
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 making touch and go landings. As he touched down on this landing, the airplane veered to the left with no left brake input. Despite full right brake application, the airplane went off the side of the runway, into the grass, and nosed over to the inverted position. The pilot and a fireman found the left wheel locked. Later an FAA inspector was unable to find any problem with the wheel or brake and the wheel turned free.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1615B
- Reported as
- Luscombe 11 (A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11-121
- Airframe hours
- 1,450
- Engine
- Continental E-185-10, 185 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Benck, Richard W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1990 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- 23F · Keller, TX
- Destination
- AFW
- Airport
- AFW · Alliance, runway 16, 8,600 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,877 total · 6 in this make and model · 1,877 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 79 °F
- 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.
Other investigations on N1615B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.