- Date
- January 10, 1994, 16:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Watkins, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9355ACessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940110002159A
- Case key
- 18988
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Probable cause
The loss of directional control by the pilot rated passenger. A factor was inadequate supervision by the pilot in command.
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 in command, who was seated in the left seat, allowed the pilot rated passenger to make the landing. The airplane made a normal full stall landing on runway 08 into a direct headwind of 6 knots. As the airplane decelerated to about 40 mph, it drifted to the right. The pilot rated passenger over corrected and the airplane ground looped. The pilot in command said later he 'waited too long' before assuming control after the airplane began 'fishtailing.'
Factual narrative
On January 10, 1994, approximately 1610 mountain standard time, a Cessna 195, N9355A, ground looped after landing on runway 8 at Front Range Airport, Watkins, Colorado. The pilot in command and the pilot rated passenger were not injured, but the airplane was substantially damaged. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and no flight plan was filed for the personal cross country flight.
The pilot rated passenger was flying the airplane. According to the Pilot/Operator report submitted by the pilot in command, the full stall landing was normal. As the airplane decelerated to about 40 mph, it drifted to the right. He further reported that the pilot rated passenger "over corrected" and the airplane ground looped. The pilot in command later told a Federal Aviation Administration inspector he "waited too long" before assuming control after the airplane started "fishtailing."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9355A
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7434
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-A2, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hoghland, Vohs, And Murphy
- Registered owner
- Hoghland, Vohs, And Murphy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 12, 1993 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- SYF · St. Francis, KS
- Destination
- FTG
- Airport
- FTG · Front Range, runway 8, 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
- 62
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 100 in this make and model · 8,000 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 9 °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 N9355A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.