- Date
- June 3, 2018, 10:35 local (16:35 UTC)
- Place
- Kanab, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67WWCessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180603006979A
- Case key
- 97452
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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
According to the pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane, he performed a wheel landing. During the landing roll, the airplane veered left when the tailwheel touched down on the runway. The airplane exited the left side of the runway about 15 knots and impacted bushes and then subsequently nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, both wings, the vertical stabilizer, and the rudder. The pilot reported that there were no 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 performed a wheel landing. During the landing roll, the airplane veered to the left when the tailwheel touched down on the runway. The airplane exited the left side of the runway about 15 knots and impacted bushes, and then subsequently nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, both wings, the vertical stabilizer, and the rudder. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67WW
- Reported as
- Cessna 180 (H)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051812
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 4,360
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 23, 2018
- Departed
- 10CO · Mack, CO
- Destination
- KNB · Kanab, UT
- Airport
- KNB · Kanab Muni, runway 01, 6,200 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, 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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 14, 2017
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 600 in this make and model · 4,880 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KKNB
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 6, 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.
Other investigations on N67WW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.