- Date
- September 22, 1991, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mammoth Lakes, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N63622Cessna 180K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910922042159A
- Case key
- 27365
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command failed to maintain directional control. Contributing to this accident was the pic's lack of experience in the airplane and the soft terrain.
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
During the landing roll on runway 09, a 7,000 ft by 100 ft runway, the pilot failed to maintain directional control, ground looped and exited to the left of the runway environment. The pilot did not report experiencing any airplane mechanical malfunctions or failures. The pilot indicated that the surface winds were from 120 degrees at 5 KTS, gusting to 10 KTS and that he had logged 14.5 hours in the accident acft make and model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63622
- Reported as
- Cessna 180K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052857
- Airframe hours
- 1,080
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James Schulz
- Registered owner
- James Schulz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 6, 1991 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- SBA · Santa Barbara, CA
- Airport
- MM4 · Mammoth-June Lakes, runway 9, 7,000 × 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,201 total · 15 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.