| Crash location | 30.042777°N, 95.667223°W
Reported location is a long distance from the NTSB's reported nearest city. This often means that the location has a typo, or is incorrect. |
| Nearest city | Cypress, TX
33.044009°N, 95.269110°W 208.7 miles away |
| Tail number | N721DL |
|---|---|
| Accident date | 15 Nov 2013 |
| Aircraft type | Aviat Aircraft Inc A 1B |
| Additional details: | None |
The pilot was making a wheel landing to a smooth dry grass runway in a tail-wheel equipped airplane. Immediately after touchdown the nose began to pitch down and the pilot's corrective inputs were unsuccessful. The propeller contacted the ground, the tail came up, and the airplane flipped and came to rest inverted. The impact resulted in substantial damage to the left wing, left strut, left aileron, vertical fin and rudder. The pilot reported that he did not react quickly enough to the downward pitching attitude.
The pilot's failure to maintain control during landing which resulted in an impact with the runway surface.