# Incident 20120811016829I: Pegasus Aviation QUANTUM SUPER SPORT, Hitchcock, TX, August 11, 2012

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 11, 2012, 20:00 local time
- Place: Hitchcock, TX
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.3483° N, 95.0160° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Hitchcock, TX, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.3483&lon=-95.0160&mi=10
- Aircraft: N678DT, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N678DT) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Pegasus QUANTUM SUPER SPORT (registry code 05902S1, https://openairdocs.org/model/pegasus-quantum-super-sport) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Rotax 503 DCDI (registry code 55566, https://openairdocs.org/engine/rotax-503-dcdi) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PEGASUS AVIATION QUANTUM SUPER SPORT
- Reported engine: ROTAX 503 DCDI
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 13 total, 7 in this make and model, 13 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20120811016829I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

08/11/2012RECEIVED A CALL INDICATING THAT AN EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT N678DT HAD RUN OFF THE RUNWAYTALKED TO PILOT ON THE PHONE AND HE INDICATED THAT AS HE WAS LANDING ON USUABLE RUNWAY 17 A CROSS WIND CAUSED HIM TO LAND OFF TO THE RIGHT OF THE RUNWAY AT JOHNNIE VOLK FIELD (37TE). THE PILOT INFORMED THE FAA THAT THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND ONLY MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT, WHICH CONSISTED OF A FEW SMALL DENTS AND SCRATCHES ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE WING. AFTER A PHONE DISCUSSION WITH THE NTSB INVESTIGATOR THE AIRCRAFT WAS MOVED INTO A HANGER ON THE AIRPORT PROPERTY.08/13/2012CONDUCTED ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.MET THE PILOT AT THE HANGER WHERE THE AIRCRAFT HAD BEEN MOVED TO AND WAS CURRENTLY LOCATED.INSPECTED THE AIRCRAFT THAT WAS LOCATED IN THE HANGER AND NOTICED THAT THERE WERE SOME SMALL DENTS AND SCRATCHES ALL LOCATED ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE WING. MOST OF THE SMALL DENTS AND SCRATCHES WERE LOCATED ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF LEADING EDGE OF THE WING.THE FAA THEN FOLLOWED THE PILOT WHO DROVE HIS TRUCK TO THE AREA OF THE INCIDENT.THE PILOT THEN EXPLAINED HOW HE WAS LANDING AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY BLOWN OFF TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY INTO THE ROUGH GRASS AND ENDED UP HITTING SOME BUSHES. THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF AIRCRAFT TRACKS LEADING FROM RUNWAY 17 THROUGH THE ROUGH GRASS LEADING TO THE SCRUBS THAT WAS HIT BY THE AIRCRAFT.THE DAMAGE TO THE SCRUBS WAS MINIMAL WITH ONLY A FEW LEAVES ON THE GROUND AND IT COULD NOT BE DETERMINED IF THE AIRCRAFT CAUSED THE LOSS OF LEAVES OR IT WAS NATURAL LEAVE LOSS. THIS INDICATED THAT THE IMPACT TO THE SCRUBS WAS AT A VERY SLOW SPEED.RETURNED TO THE HANGER AND REVIEWED THE PILOTS RECORDS AND NOTED THAT HE WAS A STUDENT PILOT WHOSE LAST ENDORSEMENT WAS ON 08/31/2011. THIS ENDORSEMENT WAS VALID FOR 90 DAYS AND EXPIRED ON 11/30/2011.THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ON 08/11/2012 INDICATING THAT THE ENDORSEMENT HAD EXPIRED APPROXIMATELY 254 DAYS PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N678DT (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20190707009329I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20190707009329I), Jul 7, 2019: Pegasus Aviation QUANTUM SUPER SPORT (N678DT), San Ysidro, NM, Minor damage. On July 7, 2019, at 0800 MDT, a Pegasus Aviation Quantum Super Sport, N678DT, [privacy data omitted] conducted a hard landing on a dirt road in cabezon, new…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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