NYC00LA080 · Taylorcraft F19
Taylorcraft F19 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From Harry Clever Field (PHD) to No airport
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC00LA080
- 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
Taylorcraft F19
- Aircraft type
- Taylorcraft F19
- 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
- N3580T
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Harry Clever Field (PHD), NEW PHILI., OHTo No airport
- 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
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Wire, transmission
- 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 › Aborted landing, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot reported he elected to land to the east on the 1,200 feet long turf runway, and touched down near the approach end. Upon applying brakes, the wheels were ineffective on the wet surface, and the pilot elected to abort the landing. He applied power, and the airplane became airborne just past midfield. The airplane then struck a wire 30 feet above the ground, and 400 feet beyond the departure end of the runway with the tailwheel. The pilot reported he was familiar with the airport, aware of and saw the power line, and believed he would clear it. After contacting the wire, the airplane decelerated, and struck the ground in a nose low attitude, beyond the power line. A check of several nearby airports revealed the winds were from 260 to 330 degrees at 6 to 12 knots, reduced visibility's due to light snow, and ceilings between 600 feet and 1100 feet. The pilot reported visibility 10 miles, ceiling 3500 feet overcast, no snow, and winds calm. The FAA reported the airport windsock indicated a wind from the west when they checked the airplane, about 3 hours after the accident. There were no witnesses to the accident.
Probable cause
was a delayed decision of the pilot to abort the landing. Factors were the wet runway, and the tail winds that prevailed in the area.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC00LA080
- Event ID
- 20001212X20558
- Case number
- NYC00LA080
- 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: 059a6eb4de971bdbed873041a656658f062b69970a88b3b0c55490f3e4082380; retrieved 2026-09-21T20:18:35.355Z.