- Date
- April 19, 2006, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Logan, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4678CubCrafters CC-18-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20060419006729A
- Case key
- 63567
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Probable cause
The pilot receiving instruction failed to maintain airplane directional control during the landing roll, and the flight instructor's inadequate supervision. An inadvertent ground loop was a factor.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The flight instructor said that he and his son were flying back to their home in Oklahoma in his new airplane. He said that he was giving instruction to his son for a tail-wheel endorsement. He said that everything appeared normal during the landing. The flight instructor said that as the airplane slowed down he noticed some drifting left and right, and then the airplane suddenly ground looped to the right. The left main landing collapsed under the fuselage bending a longeron, and bending and wrinkling the left wing tip.
Factual narrative
On April 19, 2006, at approximately 1200 mountain daylight time, a CubCrafters CC-18-180, N4678, was substantially damaged due to a ground loop during landing at Logan-Cache Airport, Logan, Utah. The airline transport pilot/flight instructor and the airline transport pilot receiving instruction were not injured. The flight instructor/owner was operating the airplane under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the cross-country instructional flight. No flight plan had been filed for the flight.
The flight instructor said that he and this other pilot, his son, were flying back to their home in Oklahoma in this new airplane. He said that he was giving instruction to his son for a tail-wheel endorsement. He said that everything appeared normal during the landing. The flight instructor said that as the airplane slowed down he noticed some drifting left and right, and then the airplane suddenly ground looped to the right. The left main landing collapsed under the fuselage bending a longeron, and bending and wrinkling the left wing tip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4678
- Reported as
- CubCrafters CC-18-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC18-0018
- Airframe hours
- 10
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carl H. Snow
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 2006 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- BOI · Boise, ID
- Destination
- LGU · Logan, UT
- Airport
- LGU · Logan-Cache Airport, runway 35, 9,095 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 1, 2006
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 12,524 total · 220 in this make and model · 10,817 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 1, 2006
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,250 total · 9 in this make and model · 1,694 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- LGU
FAA reports on this event · 1
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