- Date
- January 11, 2018, 13:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Spanish Fork, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5923CCubcrafters CC11
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Abrupt maneuver
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180111000629A
- Case key
- 96593
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Probable cause
The pilot’s incorrect 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
According to the pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane, he was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings on the turf adjacent to the paved runway. During the landing roll, he applied the brakes too aggressively and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right-wing strut, the rudder and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot in the tailwheel-equipped airplane, he was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings on the turf adjacent to the paved runway. During the landing roll, he applied the brakes too aggressively and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right-wing strut, the rudder and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5923C
- Reported as
- Cubcrafters CC11 (160)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC11-00285
- Built
- 2013
- Airframe hours
- 272.6
- Engine
- Lycoming CC-3340, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rocket Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Rocket Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 11, 2017
- Departed
- SPK · Spanish Fork, UT
- Destination
- SPK · Spanish Fork, UT
- Airport
- SPK · Spanish Fork Arpt Springville-
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, 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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Last flight review
- February 20, 2017
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 181 total · 14 in this make and model · 93 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- KPVU, 5 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 5, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 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.