RV-4
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30; Flight Crew Total 1050; Flight Crew Type 50
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Ground Event / Encounter Person / Animal / Bird; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Event / Encounter Aircraft; Ground Excursion Taxiway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Aircraft
After landing; I was taxiing to parking. The left hand brake line failed at the caliper. A direct tailwind caught right side of rudder and aircraft departed taxiway to the right. The right wing; about 1 foot inboard of tip hit pedestrian in the backside knocking him down. The force of the impact caused the aircraft to pivot sharply. The vertical tail surface struck [an aircraft] putting an approximate 2 inch dent around mid-span at leading edge. The nose of the RV4 came to rest under wing of [a second aircraft] without contacting it. Had I not shut off the RV4 engine; the prop would have struck the [second aircraft's] wing.
RV-4 pilot reported a brake failure and taxiway excursion.