- Date
- November 26, 1991, 17:31 local (Nov 27, 1991, 01:31 UTC)
- Place
- Long Beach, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2982ACessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911126053609A
- Case key
- 27510
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the landing touchdown.
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
Responding FAA inspectors from the Long Beach flight standards district office reported that the aircraft ground looped on touchdown. Investigation revealed that the pilot's airman certificate had been revoked in April of 1991. The pilot's last third class medical certificate, issued August 31, 1989, had expired. The last annual inspection for the aircraft was recorded in the maintenance records on June 29, 1989, 29 months prior to the accident. The pilot did not respond to repeated requests for a statement and did not complete a pilot accident report, NTSB form 6120.1/2.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2982A
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30182
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Grant R. Wilson
- Registered owner
- Grant R. Wilson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 30, 1989
- Departed
- HHR · Hawthorne, CA
- Airport
- LGB · Daugherty Field, runway 25, 6,192 × 200 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
- 57
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LGB, 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.