- Date
- September 4, 2019, 09:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lancaster, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9250TCessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 17, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190904012559A
- Case key
- 100273
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a ground loop.
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, during a three-point landing, the airplane veered left, ground looped, exited the runway, and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to right wing lift strut and empennage. 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 a three-point landing, the airplane veered left, ground looped left, exited the runway, and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to right-wing lift strut and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9250T
- Reported as
- Cessna 180 (C)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 50750
- Airframe hours
- 5,849
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 13, 2018
- Departed
- RBD · Dallas, TX
- Destination
- RBD · Dallas, TX
- Airport
- LNC · Lancaster Rgnl, runway 13, 6,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
- 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 3, 2019
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 83 total · 33 in this make and model · 83 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KLNC
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 22, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 892 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.