- Date
- June 30, 2018, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Shelter Island, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8870Travel Air 2000
- Defining event
- Landing: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180630008929A
- Case key
- 97750
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a tree during taxi.
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, after landing, while making a 180° left turn at the end of the runway, the right wing struck a tree branch. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right aileron. 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, after landing, while making a 180° left turn at the end of the runway, the right wing struck a tree branch. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right aileron. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8870
- Reported as
- Travel Air 2000 (Undesignat)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 937
- Built
- 1929
- Airframe hours
- 2,000
- Engine
- Continental W-670-6N, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 2, 2018
- Departed
- HTO · East Hampton, NY
- Destination
- NY03 · Shelter Island, NY
- Airport
- NY03 · Klenawicus Airfield, runway 20, 1,700 × 200 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 2, 2017
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 50 in this make and model · 8,000 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Observed at
- KHTO, 8 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 10, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.