- Date
- June 28, 2005, 08:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Laurel, MT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2619DCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 27, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20050628011529A
- Case key
- 61830
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in an inadvertent ground loop. A contributing factor was the flight instructor's diverted attention to talking with the student.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the flight instructor, the purpose of the flight was to work on landings. After the student completed two landings on runway 22, the instructor suggested they switch to runway 04 "as the wind sock was showing some movement from the east." The instructor then made two landings on runway 04. During the landing roll of the second landing, she was discussing the landing with the student and looked over at him. The airplane "veered to the right into the grass," and the addition of power did not stop the airplane from ground looping. The left wing and left elevator contacted the ground and sustained structural damage.
Factual narrative
On June 28, 2005, approximately 0800 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 170B, N2619D, sustained substantial damage when it encountered terrain following a loss of control during the landing roll on runway 04 at the Laurel Municipal Airport, Laurel, Montana. The flight instructor and the private pilot rated student were not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the student. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the local instructional flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. The flight departed from Laurel Municipal Airport about 0715.
According to the flight instructor, the purpose of the flight was to work on landings. After the student completed two landings on runway 22, the instructor suggested they switch to runway 04 "as the wind sock was showing some movement from the east." The instructor then made two landings on runway 04. During the landing roll of the second landing, she was discussing the landing with the student and looked over at him. The airplane "veered to the right into the grass," and the addition of power did not stop the airplane from ground looping. The left wing and left elevator contacted the ground and sustained structural damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2619D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20771
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Steve Inman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 6S8 · Laurel, MT
- Destination
- 6S8 · Laurel, MT
- Airport
- 6S8 · Laurel Municipal, runway 04
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Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 48
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 2,180 total · 10 in this make and model · 24 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 237 total · 87 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
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 N2619D · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.