MIA93LA192 · Piper PA-12
Piper PA-12 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA93LA192
- 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
Piper PA-12
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-12
- 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
- N2966M
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- 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
- Landing gear, tailwheel assembly › Worn
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Operation with known deficiencies in equipment, performed
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Greenwood, MS, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
BEFORE RENTING THE AIRPLANE, THE PIC/CFI WAS ADVISED BY THE OWNER THAT THE AIRPLANE WAS DIFFICULT TO TAXI AT LOW SPEEDS. THE PIC/CFI STATED THIS IN THE SUBMITTED WRITTEN REPORT. AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT THE WIND WAS FROM 350 DEGREES AT 10 KNOTS. RUNWAY 36 WAS THE ACTIVE RUNWAY. THE FRONT SEAT PILOT WAS FLYING THE AIRPLANE. WHILE LANDING AFTER THE TAIL WHEEL CONTACTED THE RUNWAY, THE EMPENNAGE SWUNG TO THE LEFT. THE PILOT FLYING THE AIRPLANE APPLIED FULL LEFT RUDDER, BRAKE, AND AILERON INPUTS BUT THE AIRPLANE GROUND LOOPED TO THE RIGHT DAMAGING THE LEFT WING. EXAMINATION OF THE TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLY BY AN FAA CERTIFICATED MECHANIC REVEALED THAT A BOLT WHICH SECURES THE TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLY TO THE FUSELAGE WAS SEVERELY WORN. REVIEW OF THE AIRPLANE LOGBOOKS REVEALED THAT THE AIRPLANE HAD ACCUMULATED ABOUT 121 HOURS SINCE THE 100 HOUR INSPECTION WHICH WAS PERFORMED ON MAY 7, 1993.
Probable cause
OPERATION OF THE AIRPLANE BY THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND/CFI WITH KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT AND THE WORN CONDITION OF THE TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA93LA192
- Event ID
- 20001211X13458
- Case number
- MIA93LA192
- 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: 4d3b1b98052c28ee32a319bc4d639068c628ef2f0e7676443f8131d428a8cfc5; retrieved 2026-09-23T01:40:25.926Z.