ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235280
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| Date: | Tuesday 12 May 2015 |
| Time: | 07:40 |
| Type: |  Taylorcraft BC-12D |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N43715 |
| MSN: | 7374 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3140 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental A65-8 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Inverness, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Inverness, FL (INF) |
| Inverness, FL (INF) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After an uneventful preflight inspection and flight around the local area, the private pilot returned to the departure airport to practice touch-and-go landings in the tailwheel-equipped airplane. The first two practice landings were uneventful; during the third landing roll, the pilot felt a vibration originating from the tailwheel that rapidly increased in intensity before the airplane suddenly veered to the left. The pilot attempted to compensate by applying full rudder control to the right, but the airplane continued to the left, departed the runway, struck a taxiway sign, and pitched nose down, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage.
Postaccident examination of the airplane's tailwheel revealed that the steering mechanism components connecting the tailwheel to the rudder had disconnected. Although a spring was recovered from the runway after the accident, the remaining hardware components were not recovered. Given this information, it is likely that the tailwheel steering mechanism became disconnected at some point during the landing and ultimately resulted in the pilot's inability to maintain directional control of the airplane. Because some of the steering mechanism components were not recovered, the reason for the disconnection could not be determined.
Probable Cause: A disconnection of the tailwheel steering mechanism during landing, which resulted in the pilot’s loss of directional control.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 19-Apr-2020 17:29 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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