- Date
- June 15, 2018, 13:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- Waukegan, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N52107Boeing B75
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- 20180615007949A
- Case key
- 97507
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The flight instructor’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing and subsequent loss of directional control.
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 flight instructor reported that, during an instructional flight, the radio and intercom failed. The instructor returned to the airport and received a green light from the tower air traffic controller to land. During touchdown, the airplane "ballooned," touched down again, and then veered right and ground looped. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The flight instructor reported that, during an instruction flight, the radio and intercom failed. The instructor returned to the airport and received a green light from the tower air traffic controller to land. During touchdown, the airplane "ballooned," touched down again, and then veered to the right and ground looped. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot did not submit the NTSB Form 6120.1 Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52107
- Reported as
- Boeing B75 (N1)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-4924
- Built
- 1941
- Engine
- Continental Motors W670, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Warbird Heritage Foundation Inc
- Registered owner
- Warbird Heritage Foundation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- UGN · Waukegan, IL
- Destination
- UGN · Waukegan, IL
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- UGN · Waukegan National, runway 23, 6,000 × 150 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 64
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 7,580 total · 180 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KUGN
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 21, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 195 KB 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.