- Date
- April 9, 1988, 11:48 local (15:48 UTC)
- Place
- Lakeland, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84SCCessna 140A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880409046399A
- Case key
- 32161
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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
While on a personal flt during the landing roll after the plt applied the brakes, the acft nosed over & came to rest inverted. He stated that the left brake locked up & after the acft was removed from the rwy, he disassembled each brake assy in an effort to determine the loss of control. The plt was unable to determine the cause of the brake problem.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84SC
- Reported as
- Cessna 140A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15327
- Airframe hours
- 3,208
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard M. Corwin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 7, 1987 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- X41 · New Port Richey, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LAL · Lakeland Municipal, runway 9, 6,000 × 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
- 54
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 3,000 in this make and model · 12,960 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.