- Date
- July 18, 2023, 13:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Chelan, WA · Lake Chelan Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N300SSCessna 150F
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20230718010659A
- Case key
- 192660
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 loss of directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop and subsequent 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 the landing roll the airplane veered left, he attempted to correct with opposite right rudder. The airplane then ground looped, the right wing struck the surface, and the airplane nosed over coming to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N300SS
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062792
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 2,538
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 D2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 15, 2023 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- Loomis, WA
- Destination
- S10 · Chelan, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- S10 · Lake Chelan Airport, runway 20, 3,506 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 31, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 277.9 total · 251 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days · 0.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KEAT, 30 nm away
- METAR
- KEAT 182055Z AUTO 34007KT 10SM CLR 27/04 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP176 T02720039 58016
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 2, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.1 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.