- Date
- November 29, 1986, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Phoenix, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N365APitts Special S1-D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25483
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
At the end of a local pleasure flight, the aircraft ground looped while the pilot was turning off of runway 7R onto a high speed taxiway. The pilot reported that near the end of the landing roll, he tapped the brakes lightly in preparation to turn when the plane ground looped. No pre-accident part failure or malfunction was found. During the occurrence, the left main gear was fractured and the lower left wing and prop were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N365A
- Reported as
- Pitts Special S1-D
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7-0158
- Airframe hours
- 250
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard L. Johnson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 5, 1986 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- DVT
- Airport
- DVT · Deer Valley, runway 7R, 5,300 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 262 total · 20 in this make and model · 197 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 45 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DVT