- Date
- May 11, 2021, 11:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Coeur d' Alene, ID · On airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7296KPiper PA-18-105 Special
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210511008319A
- Case key
- 103068
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 student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, and the flight instructors delayed remedial action which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with terrain.
Findings · 4
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 flight instructor of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, during a 3-point landing, with the student pilot at the flight controls, during the landing roll, the airplane veered left and exited the runway. The flight instructor applied full brakes to no avail. The airplane struck a berm, collapsed the left main landing gear and the left wing was substantially damaged when it impacted the surface. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7296K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-105 Special
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-210
- Built
- 1950
- Airframe hours
- 2,335
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 2021 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- ID05 · Coeur d' Alene, ID
- Destination
- COE · Couer d' Alene, ID
- Airport
- COE · Coeur d' Alene-Pappy Boyington Field, runway 20, 5,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 11, 2020
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 3,395 total · 1,166 in this make and model · 3,332 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 60 total · 4 in this make and model · 31 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KCOE
- METAR
- KCOE 111756Z AUTO 06004KT 10SM CLR 17/02 A3017 RMK AO2 SLP232 T01670017 10167 20033 58004
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 10, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 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.