- Date
- September 1, 2018, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Tulsa, OK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2303DCessna 170
- 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
- 20180901012859A
- Case key
- 98231
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing in gusting crosswind conditions.
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 pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during landing, a crosswind lifted the left wing, and the airplane drifted right. The right main landing gear encountered the grass on the right side of the runway, and the airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing lift strut, right aileron, and the empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The automated weather observation station located on the airport reported that, about 8 minutes after the accident, the wind was from 150° at 10 knots, gusting to 16 knots. The airplane landed on runway 19.
Factual narrative
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during landing, the crosswind lifted the left wing, the airplane drifted to the right, and, as the right main landing gear encountered the grass on the right side of the runway, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing lift strut, right aileron, and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The automated weather observation station located on the airport reported that, about 8 minutes after the accident, the wind was from 150° at 10 knots, gusting to 16 knots. The airplane landed on runway 19.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2303D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20455
- Built
- 1952
- Airframe hours
- 3,922
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 2018
- Departed
- OWP · Sand Springs, OK
- Destination
- RVS · Tulsa, OK
- Airport
- RVS · Richard Lloyd Jones Jr, runway 19R, 5,102 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- KRVS
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 6, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 17.8 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.