- Date
- May 18, 1986, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Winfield, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1770BMyers EAA BI-PLANE
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860518017879A
- Case key
- 34178
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated he was landing his taildragger to the north with winds from the north at 12 to 15 knots. He said he was making a three point landing and just before touchdown, the airplane changed directions and after touchdown, it went off the side of the runway into the grass and soft mud. It then flipped forward to the inverted position. Winds at wichita, KS, 34 NM to the northwest were from 050 degrees at 12 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1770B
- Reported as
- Myers EAA BI-PLANE (EAA BI-PLA)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 150-739
- Airframe hours
- 130
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Olin R. Branstetter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 15, 1986 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- PNC · Ponca City, OK
- Airport
- WLD · Strother Field, runway 35, 5,500 × 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
- 56
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 919 total · 40 in this make and model · 804 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ICT, 34 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.