- Date
- February 17, 2018, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Sterling, KY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N402MYCessna 402
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180217002689A
- Case key
- 96783
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll on a wet surface.
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 landing after it had just rained, the airplane touched down on the first third of the wet runway on the centerline. During the landing roll, he let the airplane roll to the end of the runway so that he did not have to use excessive brake inputs. He added that, as he turned left toward the taxiway, he noticed the brakes were not very effective and that the airplane began to pivot to the right. He felt the right main landing gear and nosewheel slide. The airplane exited the runway, and the nosewheel "bumped and folded." Subsequently, the airplane came to rest nose down. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. 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 reported that during landing after it had just rained, the airplane touched down on the first third of the wet runway on the centerline. During the landing roll, he let the airplane roll to the end of the runway, so that he did not have to use excessive brake inputs. He added that, as he turned left toward the taxiway, he noticed the brakes were not very effective and the airplane began to pivot to the right. He felt the right main gear and nose wheel slide, the airplane exited the runway, and the nose wheel "bumped and folded". Subsequently, the airplane came to rest nosed down. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N402MY
- Reported as
- Cessna 402 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0109
- Built
- 1971
- Engines
- Cont Motor TSIO 520SER, reciprocatingCont Motor TSIO 520SER, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ISM · Orlando, FL
- Destination
- IOB · Mount Sterling, KY
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- IOB · Mount Sterling-Montgomery Coun, runway 03, 5,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Auto-pilot
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 5, 2017
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,969 total · 248 in this make and model · 2,700 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KIOB, 1 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 3, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.0 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.