- Date
- May 28, 2024, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- McCall, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N275DMCessna 180J
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- 20240528006689A
- Case key
- 194385
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 failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with a gusty right crosswind.
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 pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that upon touchdown the airplane immediately began to swing to the right. The pilot attempted to correct with left rudder and brake, however, the airplane ground looped to the right. The left main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunction with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot was landing on runway 16 at the time of the accident, and with wind from 200° at 7 knots, gusting to 19 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N275DM
- Reported as
- Cessna 180J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052558
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 3,307
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 23, 2024 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- RBL · Red Bluff, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MYL · Mc Call Muni, runway 16/34, 6,101 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 15, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,225 total · 290 in this make and model · 78 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 9 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KMYL
- METAR
- METAR KMYL 281951Z AUTO 25009KT 10SM BKN110 21/03 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP131 T02110033=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 22, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.9 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.