- Date
- February 10, 2022, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Carrizozo, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4750BCessna 180
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220210003609A
- Case key
- 104638
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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, during the landing roll, while attempting to arrest a developing ground loop, the airplane departed the runway onto grass. The airplane collided with a deep rut and spun around. The left wing dropped and contacted the ground, substantially damaging the left wing and left aileron. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4750B
- Reported as
- Cessna 180 (F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31648
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 3,156
- Engine
- Continental O470, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mark Dankel, doing business as P J Killian Inc
- Registered owner
- P J Killian Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 13, 2021 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- KALM · Alamogordo, NM
- Destination
- F37 · Carrizozo, NM
- Airport
- F37 · Carrizozo, runway 24, 5,359 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 11, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,273 total · 30 in this make and model · 1,191 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Observed at
- KSRR, 22 nm away
- METAR
- SA 10/02/2022 22:15-> METAR KSRR 102215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 10/M10 A3015 RMK AO2=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 7, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.
Other investigations on N4750B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.