- Date
- June 30, 2016, 20:00 local (Jul 1, 2016, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Saratoga, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N60691Cessna 188
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report December 5, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160630010279A
- Case key
- 93528
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll resulting in substantial damage.
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 the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that he landed on an asphalt runway after completing an aerial application flight. He reported that during the landing roll, he ground looped the airplane to the right, the airplane exited the runway to the right, and the left wing struck the taxiway indicator sign. The left aileron sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with any portion of the airplane that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that he landed on an asphalt runway after completing an aerial application flight. He reported that during the landing roll, he ground looped the airplane to the right, the airplane exited the runway to the right, and the left wing struck the taxiway indicator sign. The left aileron sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with any portion of the airplane that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60691
- Reported as
- Cessna 188 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802806T
- Built
- 1976
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D2313, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- SAA · Saratoga, WY
- Destination
- SAA · Saratoga, WY
- Airport
- SAA · Shively Field, runway 05, 8,801 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 43
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 8, 2016
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,036.8 total · 168 in this make and model · 936 as pilot in command · 198 in the last 90 days · 67 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 100° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KSAA
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 13, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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 N60691 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.