Dave S wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

Your accounts got me to wondering ... how many of you all have
actually seen an airplane nose-over on a grass strip? Matt


http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...08X07283&key=1

I responded to this one back in my days as a vollie firefighter.. its
the only one I've ever personally seen.. and it was a TRUE soft field on
that day, it had been raining for a few days and the ground when
saturated has the consistency of gumbo clay.

Ouch.

Yes, I've no doubt that failing to use soft field technigue on a soft
field is asking for trouble. I was thinking about our topic though of
failing to use soft field technique solely because the strip was grass,
not because it really was soft. I've never suggested that a soft field
should be landed on with anything other than your very best soft field
technique.

I suspect the NTSB has other similar reports if I can just find the
right list of keywords to ferret them out.

Matt