- Date
- July 5, 1999, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Beckley, WV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N72992Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 3, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19990705008229A
- Case key
- 46710
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Probable cause
The pilot's loss of aircraft control during the landing roll, which resulted in an inadvertent ground loop.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During the landing roll, the airplane ground-looped and veered off the runway. Winds were variable, at 5 knots, and there was no evidence of brake malfunction.
Factual narrative
On July 5, 1999, about 1230 Eastern Daylight Time, a Cessna 140, N72992, was substantially damaged during a landing at Raleigh County Memorial Airport (BKW), Beckley, West Virginia. The certificated private pilot and the passenger were uninjured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time. No flight plan was filed for the flight between Person County Airport (TDF), Roxboro, North Carolina, and Beckley. The personal flight was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
The pilot stated that as he was landing on Runway 28, everything seemed to be normal. However, the "wind must have been a little stronger than I thought. Started into a ground loop." The airplane veered to the right, and went off the runway. The left main landing gear broke off, and the airplane's left wing impacted the ground.
According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Inspector, there was no evidence that the right brake had locked up, and upon inspection, the right wheel turned freely.
Winds, recorded about 20 minutes after the accident, were variable, at 5 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N72992
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10197
- Airframe hours
- 3,020
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carlton D. Bailey, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1998 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- TDF · Roxboro, NC
- Destination
- BKW
- Airport
- BKW · Raleigh County Memorial, runway 28, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 356 total · 60 in this make and model · 356 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BKW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.