- Date
- March 30, 2018, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Salina, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9986NCessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 96962
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing.
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 reported that, during landing, the tailwheel-equipped airplane had a "small bounce" and then veered to the right. He added that he attempted to correct, and the "tail came around quick in a clockwise ground loop." Subsequently, the airplane exited the right side of the runway onto soft terrain, the left main landing gear collapsed, and the left wing struck the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. 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, the tailwheel-equipped airplane had a "small bounce" and then veered to the right. He added that, he attempted to correct, and the "tail came around quick in a clockwise ground loop". Subsequently, the airplane exited the right side of the runway onto soft terrain, the left main landing gear collapsed, and the left wing struck the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9986N
- Reported as
- Cessna 180 (J)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052641
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 1,279.2
- Engine
- Cont Motor TIO-550-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2017
- Departed
- SNS · Salina, CA
- Destination
- SNS · Salina, CA
- Airport
- SNS · Salinas Muni, runway 26, 6,004 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B, 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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 649 total · 24 in this make and model · 585 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KSNS
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 22, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.8 MB in all.