Our review of the 100 most recent Super Cub accidents introduced us to more than the usual stupid pilot tricks we see when we do these reviews for the Used Aircraft Guide. We can’t help but wonder if the ability of the airplane to use unimproved airstrips and maneuver we’ll at low speed causes a certain percentage of pilots to shut off their aeronautical brains.
We’ll start with the more prosaic accident causes. We saw fewer runway loss of control (RLOC) accidents than we expected, 40. Of those, 13 involved the airplane flipping over in the process. Four botched go-arounds and one hard landing brought the landing-related accident total to 45—a number that is slightly below what we’ve seen for the Super Cub’s peers, the Aviat Husky, American Champion Scout and tailwheel Maules.