ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 150973
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| Date: | Sunday 2 December 2012 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Aerotek Pitts S-1T |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N49309 |
| MSN: | 1006 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 955 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming AEIO-360-A1E |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Billings Logan International Airport - KBIL, MT -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Billings, MT (BIL) |
| Billings, MT (BIL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After completing a personal flight, the pilot was returning to his home airport. He stated that on the first landing attempt, he was not able to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll, and he aborted the landing. On the second landing attempt, he again was not able to maintain directional control and subsequently realized that there was not enough remaining runway for him to successfully abort the landing. The airplane departed the runway surface and nosed over, coming to rest inverted. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the weld that attached the tailwheel tube to the fuselage had separated. This would have allowed for the tailwheel assembly to freely move left and right without corresponding rudder input, and thus the pilot would not be able to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s inability to maintain directional control during the landing roll because of the failure of the tailwheel support bracket.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Dec-2012 11:06 | gerard57 | Added |
| 03-Dec-2012 12:28 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 28-Nov-2017 14:00 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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