- Date
- May 3, 1991, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Orting, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2450JCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910503014419A
- Case key
- 41424
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft. Contributing to the accident was a vibration in the left main landing gear.
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Landing gear,main gear - vibrationFactor
Analysis
The pilot of the Cessna 185 tailwheel aircraft lost directional control and swerved off the right side of the runway after landing when he became distracted by a vibration or shimmy in the left main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2450J
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504390
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William E. Nordstrom
- Registered owner
- William E. Nordstrom
- Departed
- RNT · Renton, WA
- Airport
- 1S0 · Thun Field, runway 34, 3,650 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 159 total · 80 in this make and model · 98 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- 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.