Lsa instructor with student reports flat tire on landing and inability to completely clear the runwa...

Attributes
ACN	941471
Time
Date	201104
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Light Sport Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Main Gear Tire
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80 Flight Crew Total 375 Flight Crew Type 80
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

My student and I came back to land after our training flight. Everything was normal until we attempted to taxi off the runway. As we tried to exit the runway we began to turn very hard to the left even though my student had full right rudder. My student was unable to correct the problem; so I took over to see if I could remedy it. I could not. I told tower; that we had no right rudder authority and we were unable to turn to the right. I realize now that I should have told them that we were unable to exit the runway. I had my student continue to talk on the radio; and I got out of the airplane to see what the cause was. As it turns out; we had a flat tire on our left main landing gear. Even though we stopped short of the hold short lines; tower continued to have traffic land and takeoff. To be quite honest; I was not quite comfortable with this; because technically we were still on the runway. Personally; I believe that tower should have kept traffic from landing or taking off until we were able to push the airplane off the runway.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: LSA instructor with student reports flat tire on landing and inability to completely clear the runway (cross hold line) after landing. Tower continues to allow aircraft to takeoff and land.

Narrative: My student and I came back to land after our training flight. Everything was normal until we attempted to taxi off the runway. As we tried to exit the runway we began to turn very hard to the left even though my student had full right rudder. My student was unable to correct the problem; so I took over to see if I could remedy it. I could not. I told Tower; that we had no right rudder authority and we were unable to turn to the right. I realize now that I should have told them that we were unable to exit the runway. I had my student continue to talk on the radio; and I got out of the airplane to see what the cause was. As it turns out; we had a flat tire on our left main landing gear. Even though we stopped short of the hold short lines; Tower continued to have traffic land and takeoff. To be quite honest; I was not quite comfortable with this; because technically we were still on the runway. Personally; I believe that Tower should have kept traffic from landing or taking off until we were able to push the airplane off the runway.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Lsa instructor with student reports flat tire on landing and inability to completely clear the runway (cross hold line) after landing. Tower continues to allow aircraft to takeoff and land.