- Date
- December 7, 2016, 15:00 local (Dec 8, 2016, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kapolei, HI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2822TSchauer William A JR Starduster TOO SA300
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20161207018969A
- Case key
- 94500
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 a tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during a wheel landing, the airplane "yawed to the left," and he corrected with right rudder. He further reported that the airplane veered to the right and that he applied the brakes and left rudder, but the main landing gear collapsed during the swerve, and the airplane skidded to a stop on the runway. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that the left tailwheel connector cable was disconnected after the accident but that the cable was connected during his preflight inspection.
Factual narrative
The pilot of a tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that during a wheel landing, the airplane "yawed to the left" and he corrected with right rudder. He further reported that the airplane veered to the right and he applied the brakes and left rudder, but the main landing gear collapsed during the swerve and the airplane skidded to a stop on the runway. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that the left tailwheel connector cable was disconnected after the accident, but that the cable was connected during his preflight inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2822T
- Reported as
- Schauer William A JR Starduster TOO SA300 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 661
- Built
- 2007
- Airframe hours
- 52.65
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 11, 2016
- Departed
- JRF · Kapolei, HI
- Destination
- JRF · Kapolei, HI
- Airport
- JRF · Kalaeloa (John Rodgers Field), runway 04L, 4,500 × 200 ft, asphalt
- 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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 6, 2016
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 10 in this make and model · 4,600 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- PHJR
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 6, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 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.