GAA18CA272 · Cub Crafters Inc CC19 180
82XCUB Cub Crafters Inc CC19 180 · Accident: loss of control on ground during landing
From Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT) to Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT)
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA18CA272
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Cub Crafters Inc CC19 180
- Aircraft type
- Cub Crafters CC19
- 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
- N82XC
- Operator
- 82XCUB
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT), Dear Valley, AZTo Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT), Dear Valley, AZ
- Aircraft age
- About 1 year (built 2017)
- 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
- Defining eventThe 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
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
According to the pilot, he was seated in the front seat of the tandem-seat, tailwheel-equipped airplane and made a three-point landing and applied full aft stick pressure once the tailwheel was on the ground. He could not recall the airspeed, but the airplane abruptly veered to the left. The right main landing gear (MLG) collapsed, and subsequently, the the right wing struck the ground.
The pilot-rated passenger, who was a flight instructor, reported that the purpose of the flight was to perform a prebuy inspection for the pilot. He reported that there was a slight crosswind from the left about 3 knots during the three-point landing, and the stall warning horn activated. He described the landing as "perfect," but during the landing roll, the airplane veered hard left and ground looped.
The Federal Aviation Administration aviation safety inspector who examined the airplane after the accident determined that the right MLG wheel assembly "folded under the end of the gear leg and then separated." The airplane manufacturer examined the wheel assembly and reported that "an extreme sideload on the right tire caused the subsequent cascading failure of the right wheel and brake assembly," which likely resulted from the ground loop.
The METAR at the accident airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 180° at 7 knots. The pilot landed on runway 22L.
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record GAA18CA272
- Event ID
- 20180510X20823
- Case number
- GAA18CA272
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: 2f526be3ec5ef52a925aa441d2781099adf8a23d652686d29ffae8f79fe80ba6; retrieved 2026-09-16T07:08:07.234Z.