- Date
- July 18, 2024, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hollister, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N54173Boeing B75N1/N2S-3
- 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
- Case key
- 194744
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of directional control on landing, which resulted in a 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 he had not flown the airplane for a while and was practicing landings with a certificated flight instructor as a passenger. On the first landing in light and variable wind, the airplane veered sharply to the left. The pilot attempted to steer to the right, but the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54173
- Reported as
- Boeing B75N1/N2S-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-6574
- Built
- 1942
- Airframe hours
- 2,973
- Engine
- Continental 670-6A, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2023
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KCVH · Hollister Municipal Airport, runway 31, 6,350 × 100 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 22, 2023
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,154 total · 477 in this make and model · 1,039 as pilot in command
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 71
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 15, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 14,335 total · 750 in this make and model · 14,280 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KCVH
- METAR
- METAR KCVH 081735Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 23/14 A2986
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 27, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 MB in all.