- Date
- April 28, 2018, 07:45 local (12:45 UTC)
- Place
- Carrington, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N34459Aeronca 65 LB
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 27, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180428007189I
- Case key
- 97137
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control and his subsequent excessive brake application 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 solo student pilot reported that, during landing, the tailwheel-equipped airplane touched down "a little" crooked, veered to the right, and he attempted to correct with rudder but the airplane ran off the right side of the runway into a field that "wasn't terribly rough." He added that he attempted to takeoff from the field, but "realized it wasn't going to happen before the approaching trees." Subsequently, he aborted the takeoff, applied the brakes, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left-wing lift strut. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that, during landing, the tailwheel-equipped airplane touched down "a little" crooked, veered to the right, and he attempted to correct with rudder, but the airplane ran off the right side of the runway into a field that "wasn't terribly rough". He added that he attempted to takeoff from the field, but "realized it wasn't going to happen before the approaching trees". Subsequently, he aborted the takeoff, applied the brakes, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left-wing lift strut. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34459
- Reported as
- Aeronca 65 LB (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- L14741
- Built
- 1941
- Airframe hours
- 2,187
- Engine
- Continental A65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 15, 2017
- Departed
- 46D · Carrington, ND
- Destination
- 46D · Carrington, ND
- Airport
- 46D · Carrington Muni, runway 13, 4,198 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 31.7 total · 28.7 in this make and model · 0.5 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- K46D
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 28, 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.