- Date
- April 6, 1993, 18:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Norridgewock, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8775KStinson 108-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930406007959A
- Case key
- 37300
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Probable cause
The pilot at the controls failed to maintain directional control of the airplane, and the flight instructor provided inadequate supervision. A related factor was the pilot at the controls had no flight experience in the make and model of airplane being flown.
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
A flight instructor offered to give instruction, in a tailwheel airplane, to a rated commercial pilot who had not flown in this make and model prior to this flight. The rated pilot receiving instruction was seated in the left seat of the airplane. The airplane was not equipped with brakes on the right side where the flight instructor was seated. Power was applied and the airplane accelerated. The rated pilot on the controls did not maintain directional control and the airplane veered to the left. The flight instructor was unable to correct the left veer with rudder. The airplane left the runway, was caught in a snow bank and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8775K
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-2357
- Airframe hours
- 2,490
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-150-B3, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joe Vital
- Registered owner
- Joe Vital
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 16, 1993 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- OWK
- Destination
- AUG · Augusta, ME
- Airport
- OWK · Central Maine, runway 33, 3,999 × 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
- 22
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 900 total · 55 in this make and model · 838 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- WVL, 10 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.
Other investigations on N8775K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.