- Date
- August 25, 1992, 16:47 local (23:47 UTC)
- Place
- Mattawa, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2252ZWSK PZL Mielec M-18A Dromader
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 42887
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Probable cause
The inadvertent locking of the acft brakes while landing by the PIC, resulting in an acft nose over on the gravel strip.
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.
Nose over
Brakes(normal) - inadvertent useCause
Analysis
The pilot inadvertently locked the brakes while landing and the acft nosed over on the gravel landing strip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2252Z
- Reported as
- WSK PZL Mielec M-18A Dromader (M-18A DROM)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12020
- Airframe hours
- 1,073
- Engine
- PZL-Kalisz ASZ 621 RM18, 967 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- B & R Aerial Crop Care, Inc
- Registered owner
- B & R Aerial Crop Care, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 3, 1992 · 438 hours before
- Airport
- 74WA · Mattawa Airstrip, runway 18, 2,500 × 40 ft, gravel
N2252ZRegistration cancelled May 13, 2002 · WSK PZL Mielec M-18AAirframe modelWSK PZL Mielec M-18AEngine modelWsk-Pzl-K PZL ASZ-62IR
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 13,872 total · 2,036 in this make and model · 13,872 as pilot in command · 264 in the last 90 days · 162 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 65 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MWH, 33 nm away