- Date
- June 18, 2004, 16:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Loganton, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N785HStearman 4E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 1, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20040618021139A
- Case key
- 59474
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over. A factor was uneven terrain.
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 pilot was landing on a 2,200-foot-long, 110-foot-wide, turf runway. During the landing roll, the airplane drifted right and encountered uneven terrain, which elevated the tailwheel. As the pilot applied the brakes, the airplane nosed over and came to rest on the runway.
Factual narrative
On June 18, 2004, about 1615 eastern daylight time, a Stearman 4E, N785H, was substantially damaged during the landing roll at a private airstrip near Loganton, Pennsylvania. The certificated commercial pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight that departed Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. No flight plan was filed for the personal flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
According to the pilot's written statement, he landed on runway 27, a 2,200-foot-long, 110-foot-wide, turf runway. During the landing roll, the airplane drifted right and encountered uneven terrain, which elevated the tailwheel. As the pilot applied the brakes, the airplane nosed over and came to rest on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N785H
- Reported as
- Stearman 4E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4022
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney 1340AN1, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Alan C. Lopez
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LHV · Lock Haven, PA
- Destination
- NONE · Loganton, PA
- Airport
- NONE · Schrack Farms, runway 27, 2,200 × 110 ft, grass/turf
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
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,835 total · 1,221 in this make and model · 1,642 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Observed at
- IPT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.