- Date
- December 27, 2000, 16:45 local (Dec 28, 2000, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Ramona, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N9952QPiper PA-18-135
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 6, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001227026919A
- Case key
- 50755
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent encounter with a pothole during taxi, after landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot reported that after landing on a dirt strip, while taxing, the right main gear struck a large pothole. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted.
Factual narrative
On December 27, 2000, at 1645 hours Pacific standard time, a Piper PA-18-135, N9952Q, sustained substantial damage during a nose over while taxing on a dirt strip near El Capitan Reservoir, Ramona, California. The airplane was owned and operated under the provisions of CFR 14 Part 91 by the private pilot who was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight, which departed from Gillespie Field Airport, San Diego, California, at 1600.
The pilot stated that following landing rollout, while taxing, the right main gear struck a large pothole and the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9952Q
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-135
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-3579
- Airframe hours
- 3,778
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D2, 135 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James C. Laudeman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 6, 2000 · 78 hours before
- Departed
- SEE · San Diego, CA
- Airport
- Private
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 300 in this make and model · 1,350 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 330° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 158 °F, dew point 122 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RNM, 10 nm away
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 N9952Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.