- Date
- July 2, 2019, 10:23 local (16:23 UTC)
- Place
- Stanley, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N612TWCessna A185
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 2, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190702009049A
- Case key
- 99795
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control and his overapplication of brakes during an aborted takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent nose-over.
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 pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the takeoff roll, the airplane abruptly veered right, and he overcorrected to the left. The pilot then reduced the engine power to idle and overcorrected to the right. He attempted to correct by applying full brakes, but the airplane exited the runway to the left and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and the right and left wings. 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, during the takeoff roll, the airplane abruptly veered right and he overcorrected to the left. The pilot then reduced the engine power to idle, and over corrected to the right. He attempted to correct and applied full brakes, but the airplane exited the runway to the left and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, right and left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. An automated weather observation station located 2 miles to the south, reported that, about 25 minutes after the accident, the wind was from 340° at 3 knots. The airplane was taking off on runway 17.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N612TW
- Reported as
- Cessna A185 (F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504244
- Built
- 1981
- Airframe hours
- 3,265
- Engine
- Continental IO-520 D39B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 1, 2019
- Departed
- 2U7 · Stanley, ID
- Destination
- 3U2 · Yellow Pine, ID
- Airport
- 2U7 · Stanley, runway 17, 4,300 × 150 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Handheld GPS, Stall warning system
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 13, 2018
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17,000 total · 1,752 in this make and model · 17,000 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 3 knots
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KSNT, 2 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 6, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 942 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.