- Date
- October 27, 2020, 10:12 local (17:12 UTC)
- Place
- Richland, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N814BACessna A185
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20201027016949A
- Case key
- 102202
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during landing, which resulted in a nose over.
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during a wheel landing, the airplane touched down on both main landing gear as he intended, and he applied some forward pressure on the flight stick to keep the weight off the tail. The pilot employed “adequate” brake pressure as he reduced power normally and the airplane started to slow. He then applied light brake pressure between the pedals to keep the airplane on the runway centerline before the tail touched down, but the airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted. The left wing and wing strut were substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N814BA
- Reported as
- Cessna A185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504418
- Built
- 1984
- Airframe hours
- 23,444
- Engine
- Continental Motors IO-520-L, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Barr Air Patrol LLC
- Registered owner
- Barr Air Patrol LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 31, 2020 · 78 hours before
- Departed
- RLD · Richland, WA
- Destination
- RLD · Richland, WA
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- RLD · Richland Airport, runway 26, 4,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Onboard weather, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,650 total · 21 in this make and model · 1,540 as pilot in command · 110 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.41 inHg
- Observed at
- KRLD
- METAR
- KRLD 271715Z AUTO 25003KT 10SM CLR 01/M03 A3041 RMK AO2 T00111032
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 20, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 MB 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.