- Date
- October 13, 2018, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Camas, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6048HPiper J3C
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20181013019929A
- Case key
- 98510
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Probable cause
The student 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
The flight instructor reported that this was the student pilot's first solo in a tailwheel-equipped airplane and that the accident occurred during the landing roll of the fourth landing. He added that, during the landing roll, the airplane veered left. The student attempted to correct with right rudder input but overcorrected and was unable to stop the veer. The airplane continued off the runway and the left wing impacted a pole. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The instructor reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The flight instructor reported that this was the student pilot's first solo in a tailwheel equipped airplane and the accident had occurred during the landing roll of the forth landing. He added that, during the landing roll, the airplane veered to the left. The student corrected with right rudder input, but over corrected and was unable to arrest the veer. The airplane continued off the runway and the left wing impacted a pole. The airplane sustained substantial damage to left wing. The instructor reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The investigator-in-charge made multiple attempts to contact the student pilot but was unsuccessful.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6048H
- Reported as
- Piper J3C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19194
- Built
- 1946
- Airframe hours
- 4,336.9
- Engine
- Continental Motors A-65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 1, 2018
- Departed
- 1W1 · Camas, WA
- Destination
- 1W1 · Camas, WA
- Airport
- 1W1 · Grove Field, runway 25, 2,710 × 40 ft, grass/turf
- 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
- 17
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 14.8 total · 14.8 in this make and model · 0.3 as pilot in command · 14.8 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KTTD, 5 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 8, 2019, 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 N6048H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.