- Date
- April 20, 2019, 14:52 local (19:52 UTC)
- Place
- Reedsburg, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N59DWCessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 3, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190420003109A
- Case key
- 99302
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Probable cause
The pilot's loss of directional control and subsequent improper brake application during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over.
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, after a three-point landing, during the landing roll, the airplane veered left. He corrected with right rudder, but the airplane continued left, so he applied brakes, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. 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 of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, after a 3-point landing, during the landing roll, the airplane veered left. He corrected with right rudder, but the airplane continued left so he applied brakes and the airplane nosed down on the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N59DW
- Reported as
- Cessna 180 (J)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052649
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 8,041.9
- Engine
- Continental O-470-S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Part 91
- Operator
- State Of Wisconsin
- Registered owner
- State Of Wisconsin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 8, 2019
- Departed
- DAF · Necedah, WI
- Destination
- C35 · Reedsburg, WI
- Airport
- C35 · Reedsburg Muni, runway 36, 4,840 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Handheld GPS, ADS-B
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 19, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,289 total · 648 in this make and model · 9,943 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days · 47 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- Observed at
- KDLL, 9 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 8, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.0 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.