- Date
- September 17, 1990, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Enterprise, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3117DCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900917039559A
- Case key
- 41276
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during landing.
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
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped Cessna 180 lost directional control after landing. The aircraft nosed over after leaving the left side of the runway, causing substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3117D
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31915
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Paul Mcmullin
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- BOI · Boise, ID
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 8S4 · Enterprise, runway 30, 2,863 × 50 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 236 total · 144 in this make and model · 226 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N3117D · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.