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N4678 accident description

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Crash location 41.791111°N, 111.851667°W
Nearest city Logan, UT
41.735486°N, 111.834388°W
3.9 miles away
Tail number N4678
Accident date 19 Apr 2006
Aircraft type CubCrafters CC-18-180
Additional details: None

NTSB Factual Report

On April 19, 2006, at approximately 1200 mountain daylight time, a CubCrafters CC-18-180, N4678, was substantially damaged due to a ground loop during landing at Logan-Cache Airport, Logan, Utah. The airline transport pilot/flight instructor and the airline transport pilot receiving instruction were not injured. The flight instructor/owner was operating the airplane under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the cross-country instructional flight. No flight plan had been filed for the flight.

The flight instructor said that he and this other pilot, his son, were flying back to their home in Oklahoma in this new airplane. He said that he was giving instruction to his son for a tail-wheel endorsement. He said that everything appeared normal during the landing. The flight instructor said that as the airplane slowed down he noticed some drifting left and right, and then the airplane suddenly ground looped to the right. The left main landing collapsed under the fuselage bending a longeron, and bending and wrinkling the left wing tip.

NTSB Probable Cause

The pilot receiving instruction failed to maintain airplane directional control during the landing roll, and the flight instructor's inadequate supervision. An inadvertent ground loop was a factor.

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