- Date
- August 5, 1992, 08:30 local (12:30 UTC)
- Place
- Galion, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88UMPitts S-1S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920805029049A
- Case key
- 37192
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control after landing and the subsequent loss of airplane control.
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 landed to the left of the runway centerline. He said, 'I then corrected to...get back on centerline, when the aircraft overshot. ...I was correcting back...when the aircraft ground looped.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88UM
- Reported as
- Pitts S-1S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1-0035
- Airframe hours
- 714
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-B4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stuart T. Pressey
- Registered owner
- Stuart T. Pressey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 7, 1992 · 6 hours before
- Airport
- GQQ · Galion Municipal, runway 23, 3,504 × 75 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,633 total · 42 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.