- Date
- September 17, 2019, 15:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- New Meadows, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6741LPiper PA18
- 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
- 20190917014539A
- Case key
- 100393
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Probable cause
The pilot receiving instruction's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff with a gusting, right quartering headwind, which resulted in a noseover.
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, during a touch-and-go takeoff from a grass strip with the pilot receiving instruction on the controls, the airplane veered left, and the tail lifted. The instructor applied right rudder, but the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the rudder. The instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The flight instructor of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, during a touch and go takeoff from a grass strip, with the pilot receiving instruction on controls, the airplane veered left and the tail came up. The instructor applied right rudder, but the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the rudder. The flight instructor 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 9 nautical miles away from the accident airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 200° at 12 knots, gusting up to 18 knots. The flight instructor reported that the wind, about the time of the accident, was shifting from the west to southwest about 8 to 12 knots, gusting up to 12 knots. The airplane landed on runway 14.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6741L
- Reported as
- Piper PA18 (150)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-7409121
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 6,561
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mountain Aviation Corp
- Registered owner
- Mountain Aviation Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 2019
- Departed
- MYL · McCall, ID
- Destination
- MYL · McCall, ID
- Airport
- 1U4 · New Meadows, runway 14, 2,400 × 150 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- None
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 5, 2019
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 15,100 total · 650 in this make and model · 14,480 as pilot in command · 196 in the last 90 days · 52 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Front
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KMYL, 9 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 21, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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 N6741L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.