- Date
- August 18, 2017, 20:00 local (Aug 19, 2017, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Murphy, ID
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7677MMIke Reed Super Cub
- Defining event
- Landing: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20170818010389A
- Case key
- 95848
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Probable cause
The pilot’s use of excessive brake pressure 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 reported that, during proficiency training in the tailwheel-equipped airplane and during the landing roll, he began to apply brake pressure. As the main landing gear wheels rolled over a water bar, he shifted in his seat and inadvertently applied more brake pressure. Subsequently, the airplane nosed over. The gravel runway was sloped and had two water bars that cross over the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during proficiency training in the tailwheel-equipped airplane, during the landing roll, he began to apply brake pressure. As his main landing gear wheels rolled over a water bar, he shifted in his seat and inadvertently applied more brake pressure. Subsequently the airplane nosed over. The gravel runway is sloped and has two water bars that cross over the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7677M
- Reported as
- MIke Reed Super Cub
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 007
- Built
- 2016
- Airframe hours
- 245
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 6, 2017
- Departed
- EUL · Caldwell, ID
- Destination
- NA · Murphy, ID
- Airport
- NA · MAF Training Airstrip, runway Unk, 1,000 × 30 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B
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
- 66
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Last flight review
- October 22, 2015
- Flight hours
- 3,258 total · 1,800 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KMAN, 22 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.6 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.