- Date
- May 22, 1983, 17:05 local (May 23, 1983, 00:05 UTC)
- Place
- Redding, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- NC204KGreat Lakes 2T-1A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23722
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft veered off the rwy collided with a ditch and nosed over during landing. The pilot stated that the engine died when he retarded it to idle at touchdown. When he applied the brakes the pedals had no pressure and no effect. Due to a slight crosswind and 'limited authority tailwheel' as the acft slowed it began a right turn departed the rwy, hit a ditch and nosed over. The brake system was examined and a line that flexes as the landing gear strut extends and contracts was cracked. No brake fluid was found in the master cylinder and a noticeable amount of fluid was located on the outside of the line in the area of the crack. This acft airframe had a total time of 1335 hours. No record could be found on the amount of time on the brake line.
Aircraft
- Registration
- NC204K
- Reported as
- Great Lakes 2T-1A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30
- Airframe hours
- 1,335
- Engine
- Warner 185J, 185 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dye Creek Cattle Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 11, 1983 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- RBL · Red Bluff, CA
- Airport
- 085 · Benton Field, runway 15, 2,420 × 80 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 29,335 total · 1 in this make and model · 29,169 as pilot in command · 141 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDD, 6 nm away