- Date
- August 16, 1993, 18:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bastrop, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2673NCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 13, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930816029659A
- Case key
- 18819
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control and his improper compensation for existing wind conditions. Factors were the crosswind and the pilot's lack of total experience in the type of aircraft.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot of a newly purchased tailwheel airplane was practicing cross wind landings on runway 18. The pilot lost control of the airplane after applying power during the takeoff roll of his first touch and go landing. The winds at the time of the accident were from 070 degrees at 8 knots. The pilot had accumulated a total of 7.5 hours in the type of airplane. He reported that the airplane turned approximately 90 degrees left and began skipping sideways down the runway. When it left the runway the right main gear seperated and the right wing contacted the ground.
Factual narrative
On August 16, 1993, at 1815 central daylight time, a Cessna 140, N2673N, was substantially damaged upon impact with the ground following a loss of control during takeoff from the Morehouse Memorial Airport, near Bastrop, Louisiana. The commercial pilot, sole occupant of the airplane, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed throughout the area for the personal flight.
According to the pilot, he had accumulated seven and a half hours on the airplane since he purchased it two weeks prior to the accident. He added that he planned to stay in the traffic pattern to practice cross wind landings. The pilot stated that during the first landing, after executing a wheel landing on Runway 18, he "pushed in the throttle to takeoff again and the plane jumped up and turned approximately 90 degrees towards the left side of the runway and began skipping sideways". The right main landing gear separated from airframe and the right wing impacted the ground. Winds were from 070 degrees at 8 knots.
The wreckage was released to the owner at the accident site.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2673N
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12931
- Airframe hours
- 4,105
- Engine
- Continental C85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Anderson, Brian R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 15, 1993 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- 2F8
- Destination
- 2F8
- Airport
- 2F8 · Morehouse Memorial, runway 16, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 289 total · 7 in this make and model · 201 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLU, 17 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.