- Date
- March 6, 1991, 13:36 local (20:36 UTC)
- Place
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76553Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910306005649A
- Case key
- 27130
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Probable cause
That the pilot improperly used the flight controls and brakes. Contributing to this accident was an existing cross/tailwind.
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 local controller cleared the airplane to land on the 6,999 ft long runway 03. The surface weather observation chart at the time of the accident indicates that the surface winds were from 260 degrees at 5 knots. The pilot reported that he executed an uneventful wheel landing and when the airplane decelerated he began to turn off the runway onto the taxiway when a gust of wind raised the left wing and then the airplane nosed over. He could not recall if he applied brakes when he was attempting to arrest the raising left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76553
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10989
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mosely, Willliam I.
- Registered owner
- Mosely, Willliam I.
- Departed
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- Airport
- FLG · Pulliam, runway 3, 6,999 × 15 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 334 total · 223 in this make and model · 230 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- FLG, 1 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 N76553 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.