- Date
- June 11, 1994, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ramona, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2927NCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 12, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940611015009A
- Case key
- 28771
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Probable cause
a failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane. A lack of total experience in tailwheel type airplanes was a factor in the accident.
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 aircraft owner was providing familiarization in the tailwheel airplane to the first pilot. After demonstrating several maneuvers and a landing, the first pilot took the controls and conducted a landing. During the landing roll, the airplane veered to the left and the right main landing gear separated from the fuselage. The pilot had accrued 1 hour in the airplane before the accident.
Factual narrative
On June 11, 1994, about 1500 hours Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 140, N2927N, crashed during landing at the Ramona Airport, Ramona, California. The airplane, occupied by the owner and the pilot, was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) local flight when the accident occurred. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The certificated private pilot (first pilot) occupying the right seat received minor injuries. The aircraft owner (second pilot), a certificated airline transport pilot occupying the left seat, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The flight originated at Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California, about 1430 hours.
The pilot reported that the purpose of the flight was to gain familiarization with the airplane. The second pilot demonstrated several maneuvers and a landing. The first pilot then took the controls and made a landing on runway 27. During the landing roll, the pilot indicated that the airplane veered to the left. The right landing gear then collapsed and the airplane received damaged to the fuselage, right wing, and engine.
A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airworthiness inspector, San Diego Flight Standards District Office (FSDO), examined the airplane. He reported that the right main landing gear was torn from the fuselage. The fuselage was buckled behind the left main gear. The right doorposts were sheared from their attachment points. The right wing was buckled about 2 feet inboard from the tip.
The first pilot holds a private pilot certificate with an airplane single-engine land rating. According to the pilot/operator report that the pilot submitted, his total aeronautical experience consists of about 350 hours, of which 1 hour was accrued in the accident aircraft make and model.
The closest official weather observation station is Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California, which is located 14 nautical miles south of the accident site. At 1549 hours, a surface observation was reporting in part: Sky condition and ceiling, partial obscuration, 2,500 feet scattered clouds; visibility, 7 miles; temperature, 73 degrees F; wind, 250 degrees at 7 knots; altimeter, 29.94 inHg; remarks, haze.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2927N
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 13188
- Airframe hours
- 5,996
- Engine
- Lycoming O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- David Novick
- Registered owner
- Taildragger Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 6, 1993 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- SEE · El Cajon, CA
- Airport
- L39 · Ramona, runway 27, 4,000 × 150 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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 350 total · 1 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEE, 14 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 N2927N · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.