- Date
- October 3, 1993, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Watkins, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N16CBMaule M-5-200C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 1, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19931003037339A
- Case key
- 18945
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Probable cause
The pilot's loss of directional control resulting in the inadvertent ground loop. A factor was the instructor's failure to take remedial action on a timely manner.
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
During the third landing, the airplane swerved to the right during the landing rollout. The private pilot receiving instruction attempted to abort the landing by adding full power and applying full left rudder. The instructor pilot told the pilot to close the throttle. The instructor stated that the pilot failed to relinquish the controls and directional control was lost. The private pilot reported that the instructor did not attempt to take control of the airplane and only asked for the power reduction.
Factual narrative
On October 3, 1993, at 1100 mountain daylight time, a Maule M-5-200C, N16CB, was substantially damaged following a loss of control while landing at the Front Range Airport, near Watkins, Colorado. The certified flight instructor and the private pilot receiving instruction were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the instructional flight.
According to the operator, during the third landing of the instructional period, the airplane swerved to the right during the landing roll. The pilot elected to abort the landing and applied full power as he applied full left rudder. As soon as he added power, the instructor started to tell the pilot to close the throttle and continue the landing roll. The pilot stated that he reduced the power and then lost control of the airplane, ground looping off the runway. The instructor pilot stated that the pilot failed to relinquish the controls of the airplane.
The right main landing gear collapsed, and the right wing sustained structural damage after it dug into the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N16CB
- Reported as
- Maule M-5-200C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5016C
- Airframe hours
- 622
- Engine
- Franklin 6A-350-C1, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Berg, Jeffrey L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 1993 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- FTG · Front Range, runway 26, 8,000 × 100 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
- 50
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 8,003 total · 28 in this make and model · 5,000 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 80 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN, 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.
Other investigations on N16CB · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.