- Date
- April 25, 2016, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Madison, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8872HGrumman Acft ENG Cor-Schweizer G 164
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 1, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160425003989A
- Case key
- 93067
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's incorrect brake application during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over.
Findings · 3
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 a tailwheel-equipped bi-plane reported that he was performing a short field landing on a rough grass runway. The pilot further reported that he applied the brakes immediately after touchdown, and then felt the main landing gear "grab" and the tail begin to rise. Subsequently, the bi-plane nosed over on the runway. The pilot reported that he "should not have applied the brakes so soon" after touchdown. The vertical stabilizer sustained substantial damage. The pilot did not report any mechanical malfunctions or failures with the bi-plane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot of a tailwheel-equipped bi-plane reported that he was performing a short field landing on a rough grass runway. The pilot further reported that he applied the brakes immediately after touchdown, and then felt the main landing gear "grab" and the tail begin to rise. Subsequently, the bi-plane nosed over on the runway. The pilot reported that he "should not have applied the brakes so soon" after touchdown. The vertical stabilizer sustained substantial damage. The pilot did not report any mechanical malfunctions or failures with the bi-plane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8872H
- Reported as
- Grumman Acft ENG Cor-Schweizer G 164 (A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1555
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 8,265
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 23, 2016
- Departed
- FSK · Fort Scott, KS
- Destination
- SN91 · Madison, KS
- Airport
- SN91 · Godfrey, runway 24, 2,300 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- None
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
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 13, 2015
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 800.2 total · 394 in this make and model · 752 as pilot in command · 52.7 in the last 90 days · 46.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.70 inHg
- Observed at
- KEMP, 14 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 19, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 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.