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| Date: | Sunday 17 April 2005 |
| Time: | 19:30 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna A185E |
| Owner/operator: | James Kincaid |
| Registration: | N4557F |
| MSN: | 185-1061 |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-520D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wasilla, Alaska -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Wasilla Airport, AK (WWA/PAWS) |
| Wasilla Airport, AK (WWA/PAWS) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The certificated flight instructor pilot was giving landing instruction to a private pilot prior to administering a biennial flight review. The flight instructor reported that during the accident landing, with the private pilot operating the controls, the airplane swung to the right, and with full left brake applied, the airplane still continued to the right. The instructor said he took control of the airplane, and intentionally applied the right brake and ground-looped the airplane to prevent it from exiting the runway and encountering a ditch. The airplane sustained structural damage to the left wing.
Probable Cause: The flight instructor's failure to provide adequate supervision of the second pilot during the landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control and an intentional ground-loop by the instructor. A factor in the accident was the dual student's ( a certificated private pilot) loss of directional control during the landing roll.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC05CA060
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 July 2013 | N4557F | Northwestern Aviation Services Inc | 0 | Kotzebue, Alaska | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Oct-2022 14:43 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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