- Date
- April 12, 2008, 10:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N36VQuestair Venture
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 28, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20080412014359A
- Case key
- 67810
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Probable cause
The failure of the left side master brake cylinder that led to a loss of braking capability during landing rollout. A contributing factor was the presence of a ditch next to the runway's end.
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 made a normal landing on runway 16 in his amateur-built experimental airplane. The pilot reported that the airplane's left brake became dysfunctional during rollout, and he was unable to stop before reaching the runway's departure end. The airplane rolled over the runway's end, entered a ditch and nosed over. The airplane had decelerated to about 10 miles per hour when it exited the runway. An examination of the airplane's brake system revealed that the left side master brake cylinder had failed.
Factual narrative
The pilot made a normal landing on runway 16 in his amateur built experimental airplane. The pilot reported that his airplane's left brake became dysfunctional during rollout, and he was unable to stop before reaching the runway's departure end. The airplane rolled over the runway's end, entered a ditch and nosed over. The airplane had decelerated to about 10 miles per hour when it exited the runway. An examination of the airplane's brake system revealed that the left side master brake cylinder had failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N36V
- Reported as
- Questair Venture
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 16
- Airframe hours
- 350
- Engine
- Continental IO-550, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Alan M. Borg
- Registered owner
- Questair Ventures, LLC.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2007
- Departed
- U42 · Salt Lake City, UT
- Destination
- U42 · Salt Lake City, UT
- Airport
- U42 · Salt Lake City Muni 2, runway 16, 5,860 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 59
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 548 total · 350 in this make and model · 4 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
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 N36V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.