- Date
- May 12, 2022, 13:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Franklin, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23FGCessna 185
- 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
- Case key
- 105098
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane 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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing roll, the right wing lifted, and the airplane veered right. He attempted to initiate a rejected landing, but the airplane exited the runway onto the grass to the right of the runway. The left wing contacted the ground substantially damaging the left wing, left elevator and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23FG
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504035
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 13,653
- Engine
- Cont Motor TSIO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft - state · Part 91
- Registered owner
- State Of California Dept Of Fish & Game
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special); Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 3, 2021
- Departed
- KSAC · Sacramento, CA
- Destination
- F72 · Elk Grove, CA
- Airport
- F72 · Franklin Fld, runway 18, 3,123 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 11, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,722 total · 56 in this make and model · 2,362 as pilot in command · 77 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.26 inHg
- Observed at
- KSAC, 13 nm away
- METAR
- KSAC 122053Z 20007KT 160V230 10SM OVC110 21/01 A3026 RMK AO2 SLP248 T02110011 58013
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 3, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 MB in all.