FTW98LA337 · Rockwell S2R
Rockwell S2R · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From SPADE, TX (no airport) to Q26
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW98LA337
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Rockwell S2R
- Aircraft type
- Rockwell S2
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N8522V
- Operator
- Eddie K. Oliver · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From SPADE, TX (no airport)To Q26
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Ground loop/swerve, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
During the landing roll, the agricultural airplane started to turn toward the left side of the runway. The pilot applied right rudder followed by right brake; however, the right brake application had no effect. A mechanic and an FAA inspector found 'no abnormalities' with the brake system and 'normal brake pressure.' Maintenance records did not reveal any previous discrepancies with the brake system. Total aircraft flight time for the pilot was 930 flight hours with 540.8 hours in the Cessna A188B, agricultural aircraft; however, there were no flight entries from October 1992 to July 1998. On July 14, 1998, the pilot satisfactorily completed a biennial flight review in a Cessna 172 single engine non agricultural aircraft. The pilot flew the accident agricultural aircraft for 19.5 hours in July 1998.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft during the landing roll. A factor was the pilot's lack of experience in the aircraft.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW98LA337
- Event ID
- 20001211X10599
- Case number
- FTW98LA337
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: ee2d88d62628725f96d448d2d39f178f36f8a665cdc24910dc743c92932f7b40; retrieved 2026-09-22T17:18:41.856Z.