- Date
- November 17, 2019, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- West Jefferson, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18416Stinson SR9
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20191117021339A
- Case key
- 100584
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Probable cause
The pilot's use of excessive braking during landing, which resulted in a 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 reported that, during the landing roll, he applied brakes, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot added that he should have used "less…brakes."
Factual narrative
The pilot of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, during landing roll, he applied brakes and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot added that he should have "less use of brakes."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18416
- Reported as
- Stinson SR9 (C)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5318
- Built
- 1937
- Airframe hours
- 4,749
- Engine
- Lycoming 680E38, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sky Ranch One LLC
- Registered owner
- Sky Ranch One LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 5, 2019
- Departed
- I74 · Urbana, OH
- Destination
- 49OH · West Jefferson, OH
- Airport
- 49OH · Sky Ranch, runway 24, 3,000 × 100 ft
- 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 17, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 3,796.8 total · 30 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KTZR, 5 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 30, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.2 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.