- Date
- July 12, 1998, 10:20 local (16:20 UTC)
- Place
- Price, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N360PPeebles/Lancair 360 LC-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 28, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19980712016469A
- Case key
- 43161
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive descent rate on final approach and his delayed use of power to arrest the excessive descent rate.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the pilot, he was on final approach and he allowed the airplane's descent rate to become excessive. He reported that he could not arrest it with power. The airplane impacted the runway and the right main gear 'snapped off.' The pilot reported that he was able to keep the airplane on the runway for approximately 1,500 feet before it ground looped.
Factual narrative
On July 12, 1998, approximately 1020 mountain daylight time, a Peebles/Lancair 360 LC-20, N360P, was substantially damaged during a hard landing at Carbon County Airport, Price, Utah. The commercial pilot and his passenger were not injured. The airplane was being operated by the pilot under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local flight which originated approximately 20 minutes before the accident. No flight plan had been filed.
According to the pilot, while flying the approach to a landing, "the decent rate got to [sic] high and I failed to arrest it with power in time." The airplane impacted the runway and the right main gear "snapped off." The pilot reported that he was able to keep the airplane on the runway for approximately 1,500 feet before it ground looped. Subsequently, the fuselage, lower cowling, and right flap were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N360P
- Reported as
- Peebles/Lancair 360 LC-20
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 256-24
- Airframe hours
- 530
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mark E. Francis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1998 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- PUC
- Airport
- PUC · Carbon County Airport, runway 18, 8,300 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 470 total · 5 in this make and model · 421 as pilot in command · 76 in the last 90 days · 37 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PVU, 70 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.