20200726018149A

Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Cascade Ultralights Kasperwing · Arlington, WA · July 26, 2020

Date
July 26, 2020 · 07:40 local
Place
Arlington, WA
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules
Ultralight vehicle (Part 103)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
CIBTR
Reported as
Cascade Ultralights Kasperwing
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
1
Pilot’s certificate
Unknown or foreign certificate
Pilot’s flight hours
2 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

privacy data omittedPilot was test flying the aircraft after recently removing it from long term storage.

Aircraft took off from runway 11 to the south and initiated a left turn to the crosswind leg and at about 200 feet AGL the aircraft settled to the left and hit the ground near the corner of rwy 29 in the grass area. Aircraft flipped over in a forward direction and came to rest upside down.

Pilotprivacy data omitted sustained serious injuries to his right leg.

As the FAA filed it

^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^PILOT WAS TEST FLYING THE AIRCRAFT AFTER RECENTLY REMOVING IT FROM LONG TERM STORAGE.

AIRCRAFT TOOK OFF FROM RUNWAY 11 TO THE SOUTH AND INITIATED A LEFT TURN TO THE CROSSWIND LEG AND AT ABOUT 200 FEET AGL THE AIRCRAFT SETTLED TO THE LEFT AND HIT THE GROUND NEAR THE CORNER OF RWY 29 IN THE GRASS AREA. AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER IN A FORWARD DIRECTION AND CAME TO REST UPSIDE DOWN.

PILOT^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES TO HIS RIGHT LEG.