- Date
- June 26, 2015, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Anacortes, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N28437Silvaire Luscombe 8A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20150626009039A
- Case key
- 91509
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive brake application during the landing roll resulting in a nose over.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that during the landing roll he applied "excessive" brakes, and the airplane nosed over. The empennage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that during the landing roll he applied "excessive" brakes, and the airplane nosed over. The empennage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28437
- Reported as
- Silvaire Luscombe 8A (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1304
- Built
- 1940
- Airframe hours
- 3,705
- Engine
- Continental 8A65-9-F, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Steve McLean and Lyle E. Mooney
- Registered owner
- Steve McLean and Lyle E. Mooney
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 22, 2015 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- 74S · Anacortes, WA
- Destination
- 74S · Anacortes, WA
- Airport
- 74S · Anacortes, runway 18, 3,015 × 60 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
- 83
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 23, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 423.1 total · 13.5 in this make and model · 423.1 as pilot in command · 1.7 in the last 30 days · 0.4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- BVS, 10 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 27, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 MB in all.
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 N28437 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.