- Date
- February 1, 1987, 10:43 local (18:43 UTC)
- Place
- Riverside, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1130BLuscombe 8A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870201001629A
- Case key
- 25515
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Analysis
A Luscombe 8A ground looped on landing roll. The pilot indicated that during the landing roll after his third landing he heard a 'pop' sound. The aircraft veered right, collapsing the left main landing gear and damaging the left wing. After the accident the student pilot, who is also an airframe and powerplant mechanic discovered the left rudder cable was broken. The cable was examined in a metallurgical laboratory. The examination revealed that 42 of the 49 wires in the cable had fatigue characteristics at the wire breaks and the remaining 7 were entirely overstress fractures. The wire breaks had occurred within 0.5 inches of each other near a pulley.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1130B
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5757
- Airframe hours
- 1,703
- Engine
- Continental C8512F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dawn M. Holbrook
- Registered owner
- Holbrook, Dawn M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 4, 1986 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- RIR · Riverside, CA
- Airport
- RIR · Flabob, runway 24, 3,200 × 50 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 189 total · 134 in this make and model · 115 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAL, 3 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 N1130B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.