20240623007859I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Luscombe 8E · Stevensville, MT · June 23, 2024

Date
June 23, 2024 · 14:20 local
Place
Stevensville, MT
Airport
Stevensville
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Departure Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N27RD
Reported as
Luscombe 8E
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-235 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
122 total38 in this make and model8 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.

On takeoff roll, pilot attempted to compensate for the gusty cross winds and mismanaged the controls. The aircraft corrected hard left and the right gear collapsed damageing the right wing tip.

As the FAA filed it

ON TAKEOFF ROLL, PILOT ATTEMPTED TO COMPENSATE FOR THE GUSTY CROSS WINDS AND MISMANAGED THE CONTROLS. THE AIRCRAFT CORRECTED HARD LEFT AND THE RIGHT GEAR COLLAPSED DAMAGEING THE RIGHT WING TIP.