- Date
- February 10, 1995, 16:00 local (Feb 11, 1995, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Camas, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N626RPCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 29, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950210001589A
- Case key
- 42108
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Probable cause
Inadequate remedial action by the flight instructor after the student lost directional control.
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 private pilot was receiving dual currency training from the flight instructor. During a touch-and-go, a wheel landing was performed. The aircraft bounced, then drifted to the right of the runway, where the right wheel was in grass and soft dirt. Both pilots attempted to recover, but the aircraft nosed over.
Factual narrative
On February 10, 1995, approximately 1600 Pacific standard time, a Cessna 180, N626RP, sustained substantial damage when it nosed over during a touch-and-go landing at Camas, Washington. The private pilot and his certified flight instructor were uninjured.
There was no fire, and no report of the ELT actuating. No flight plan was filed for the flight, which was conducted in visual meteorological conditions.
An FAA inspector who went to the scene stated that the private pilot was receiving dual currency training from the flight instructor. During a touch-and-go, a wheel landing was performed. The aircraft bounced, then drifted to the right of the runway, where the right wheel was in grass and soft dirt. Both pilots attempted to recover, but the aircraft nosed over, causing substantial damage to the wings and fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N626RP
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31659
- Engine
- Continental O-470J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles L. Dally
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 1994 · 44 hours before
- Departed
- WA10
- Airport
- WA10 · Grover Field, runway 7, 2,700 × 40 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
- 72
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 12,237 total · 2,880 in this make and model · 11,995 as pilot in command · 112 in the last 90 days · 48 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °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 N626RP · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.