- Date
- October 15, 2019, 18:45 UTC
- Place
- Lebanon, NH
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2037BLuscombe 8
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20191015024299A
- Case key
- 100445
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with a ditch.
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 reported that, during landing and shortly after touchdown, a wind gust lifted the right wing, and the airplane veered left. The pilot attempted to apply control inputs and added power to recover, but the airplane exited the runway and impacted a drainage ditch. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. 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 reported that during landing, shortly after touchdown, a wind gust lifted the right wing and the airplane veered to the left. The pilot attempted to apply control inputs and added power to maintain directional control, however, the airplane exited the runway to the left and impacted a drainage ditch. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2037B
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8 (F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6464
- Built
- 1948
- Engine
- Continental C90, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Silvaire LLC
- Registered owner
- Silvaire LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- LEB · Lebanon Muni, runway 25, 5,496 × 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
- 72
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Unknown
- Last flight review
- July 10, 2019
- Flight hours
- 197.1 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KLEB
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 10, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 954 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.