- Date
- July 30, 2006, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hailey, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N42401Cessna 180J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060730015999A
- Case key
- 64249
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to adequately compensate for wind conditions.
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
In a written report, the pilot stated that during the landing rollout "a gust [of wind] came up and I lost directional control. I made the proper corrections but the aircraft was at the end of the landing phase and ground looped to the left." The pilot reported that winds at the time of the accident were from 250 degrees at 15-20 knots and gusting.
Factual narrative
On July 30, 2006, about 1130 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 180J airplane, N42401, sustained substantial damage while landing at the Friedman Memorial Airport, Hailey, Idaho. The commercial pilot, the owner and operator of the airplane, and the one passenger aboard, were not injured. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) cross-country flight under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 when the accident occurred. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. No flight plan was filed for the flight that originated from Stanley, Idaho, approximately 30 minutes prior to the accident.
In a written report to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the pilot reported that during the landing rollout "a gust [of wind] came up and I lost directional control. I made the proper corrections but the aircraft was at the end of the landing phase and ground looped to the left."
The pilot reported that winds at the time of the accident were from 250 degrees at 15-20 knots and gusting.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42401
- Reported as
- Cessna 180J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 52350180
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental IO-520, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas G. Lenze
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- 2U7 · Stanley, ID
- Destination
- KSUN · Hailey, IA
- Airport
- SUN · Friedman Memorial, runway 31
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 3,070 total · 1,363 in this make and model · 3,070 in the last 90 days
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.