- Date
- November 2, 2012, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Casper, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N130PSSpackman Avid Flyer
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 27, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20121102024489A
- Case key
- 85591
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he circled above the traffic pattern in the tailwheel-equipped airplane for approximately 1/2 hour before he entered the traffic pattern and conducted an uneventful approach and landing. The pilot reported that during the landing roll, the airplane ground looped, and the lower fuselage where the landing gears attach was substantially damaged. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that it was the tail-wheel equipped airplane’s first flight. He had circled above the traffic pattern for approximately one half hour before he entered the traffic pattern and conducted an uneventful approach and landing touchdown. The pilot reported that during the landing roll, the airplane ground looped, and the lower fuselage where the landing gears attach, was substantially damaged. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N130PS
- Reported as
- Spackman Avid Flyer
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1250D
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Rotax 912A, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Flight test · Part 91
- Operator
- E. Paul Spackman
- Registered owner
- E. Paul Spackman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · October 26, 2012 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- CPR · Casper, WY
- Destination
- CPR · Casper, WY
- Airport
- CPR · Casper/Natrona Intl Airport, runway 26, 8,679 × 150 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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 29, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 900 total · 1 in this make and model · 850 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- CPR, 1 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 19, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 551 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.