- Date
- January 12, 2018, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Winnimucca, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N127DTCub Crafters CC18-180
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 27, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180112000669A
- Case key
- 96603
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control and her use of excessive braking during landing, which resulted in a nose-over.
Findings · 4
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 tundra tire- and tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the initial touchdown on the asphalt runway, the airplane bounced. She added engine power and continued to flare, but as the right main wheel touched down on the runway, the airplane veered to the right. She attempted to correct by adding full left rudder and slight brake pressure, but the airplane continued to the right. She then applied more brake pressure, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the rudder and left-wing lift strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot of the tundra tire, and tailwheel-equipped airplane, reported that during the initial touchdown on the asphalt runway, the airplane bounced. She added engine power and continued to flare, but as the right main wheel touched down on the runway the airplane veered to the right. She attempted to correct by adding full left rudder and slight brake pressure, but the airplane continued to the right. She then applied more brake pressure and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the rudder and left-wing lift strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N127DT
- Reported as
- Cub Crafters CC18-180 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC18-0051
- Built
- 2011
- Airframe hours
- 430.6
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C4P, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Tac Aero / Hood Tech Corp Aero, doing business as Tac Aero
- Registered owner
- L-Bird LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 10, 2018
- Departed
- 4S2 · Hood River, OR
- Destination
- WMC · Winnimucca, NV
- Airport
- WMC · Winnemucca Muni, runway 20, 4,800 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Handheld GPS, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device
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
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 3, 2017
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 384.7 total · 22.8 in this make and model · 332.5 as pilot in command · 20.6 in the last 90 days · 13.1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.36 inHg
- Observed at
- KWMC, 1 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 5, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.
Other investigations on N127DT · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.