- Date
- January 13, 1998, 15:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Goodyear, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2496VCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19980113000299A
- Case key
- 30020
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Probable cause
The inadvertent brake activation by the student pilot while practicing touch-and-go landings.
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
On the third touch-and-go landing the student pilot inadvertently applied brake pressure. He lost control, ground looped the aircraft, and the landing gear collapsed. No mechanical malfunctions of the brake was noted by the student pilot.
Factual narrative
On January 13, 1998, at 1520 hours mountain standard time, a Cessna 140, N2496V, ground looped on landing and collapsed the landing gear at the Goodyear, Arizona, airport. The aircraft sustained substantial damage, and the student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions existed for the local solo instructional flight and no flight plan was filed.
The student pilot reported that on his third touch-and-go landing he inadvertently applied brake pressure on landing, lost control, and ground looped the aircraft. He stated that weather was not a factor. He also reported that there were no mechanical difficulties with the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2496V
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 14765
- Airframe hours
- 5,507
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Everet W. Quamme
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 23, 1997 · 78 hours before
- Departed
- GYR
- Airport
- GYR · Phoenix-Goodyear Muni, runway 21, 8,500 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 32 total · 28 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GYR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.