NTSB Accidents

A “hard, but not too hard” landing on a remote beach was too much for the right main landing gear.

Improperly set throttle results in Aeronca getting away from pilot following hand-propping. Pilot suffered serious injuries. Plane hits hangar.

As pilot rejected takeoff, lack of familiarity cited as a contributing factor in Tecnam P2008 accident.

Pilot fails to maintain adequate glide path to runway, lands short collapsing gear.

Bolt holding the throttle cable bracket goes missing, leaving Meyers 200 pilot unable to adjust power setting.

The flight instructor reported he was providing simulated engine failure (SEF) training, with a left 180° turn, to the student pilot. During the second SEF, he cut the power and the student pilot slowly made a left turn from downwind to base to the airport in Gilmer, Texas. The flight instructor recalled that the student […]

Following a day visual meteorological condition flight, during the landing roll, two deer jumped onto the runway at the airport in Climax, N.C. The pilot swerved the Cessna 120 to the right off of the runway, avoiding both deer. During the runway excursion, the right main landing gear became caught in tall grass and the […]

The pilot of the amphibious Lake LA-4 reported that during the fourth water landing of the flight, during touchdown, “the nose pitched down aggressively” and the airplane nosed over. He and a passenger were able to perform an emergency evacuation before the airplane sank near Greers Ferry, Arkansas. The fuselage sustained substantial damage. During a […]

The pilot and passenger were departing on a personal, cross-country flight from a grass runway in Rockville, Indiana. A witness saw the Cessna 150 lift off from the 2,081′ runway near midfield with a high pitch attitude, but he did not see the subsequent climbout or accident. The airplane hit tall trees about 1,100′ past […]