Probable cause: The flight instructor’s decision to continue to taxi the airplane to the parking area with a known brake malfunction, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent impact with a parked airplane.
NTSB Accidents
Unstabilized approach ends with biplane hitting trees
Probable cause: The pilot’s unstabilized approach, which resulted in the biplane being low and striking trees.
Carb icing brings down Lightning
Probable cause: A partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the subsequent forced landing on a rough/soft field.
Fuel exhaustion leads to damaged Piper
Probable cause: The pilot’s improper preflight planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and the total loss of engine power.
Insurance flight review ends in damaged airplane
Probable cause: The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent hard landing while demonstrating a short-field landing and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Cessna 172 damaged after tail strike on dirt runway
Probable cause: The airplane’s encounter with a depression in a dirt runway during takeoff, which resulted in a tail strike.
New tailwheel pilot hits runway light
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Landing goes awry for new RV-6 owner
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Beech Baron bent after stall
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain the proper airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle-of-attack during a single-engine approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall at an altitude too low for the flight instruct