ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 291119
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| Date: | Monday 2 March 2015 |
| Time: | 17:25 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-18 |
| Owner/operator: | Murfreesboro Aviation |
| Registration: | N37WP |
| MSN: | 18-756 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5776 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320 B2B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Murfreesboro, Tennessee -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Murfreesboro Municipal Airport, TN (KMBT) |
| Murfreesboro Municipal Airport, TN (KMBT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During an instructional flight in a tailwheel equipped airplane, the student pilot and flight instructor planned to stay in the traffic pattern for touch and go landing practice. During the landing rollout, the airplane started drifting to the left side of the runway. Subsequently, the student pilot applied a hard correction to the right with the rudder pedals and the airplane ground looped, stopping 180 degrees from the landing direction. The flight instructor stated that he called for "my aircraft" when the student pilot made the hard correction, but the student pilot did not get off rudder pedals. Both the student pilot and flight instructor suspected that inadvertent brake application may have been applied in the heel brake equipped airplane. The flight instructor added that he did not observe any preimpact mechanical malfunctions with the airplane and the winds were light during the time of the accident. Examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed substantial damage to the left wing.
Probable Cause: The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action, which resulted in a ground-loop and the left wing dragging the runway.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ERA15CA148
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 August 2012 | N37WP | Russell S Badowski | 0 | Anchorage, Alaska | |
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| 13 July 2023 | N37WP | Hunter Creek LLC | 0 | Palmer, Alaska | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 07-Oct-2022 09:48 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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