- Date
- July 15, 2010, 10:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Skwentna, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5833EAvions Max Holste MH 1521 Broussard
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 7, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20100715047539A
- Case key
- 77282
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate crosswind compensation, which resulted in a loss of directional control.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated that while landing on his private gravel airstrip, he was compensating for a slight crosswind. He did not respond quickly enough to maintain directional control of the airplane and the left main landing gear wheel went into a shallow ditch. The airplane veered off the runway and nosed over. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical problems with the airplane. The airplane sustained structural damage to the wings and vertical stabilizer.
Factual narrative
The private pilot reported he was on a personal, Title 14 CFR Part 91 flight to his private airstrip. He stated that while landing on the gravel airstrip he was compensating for a slight crosswind. He said he did not respond quickly enough to maintain directional control of the airplane, and that the left main landing gear wheel went into a shallow ditch, pulling the airplane off the runway, where it nosed over. The pilot indicated that there were no preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane. The airplane sustained structural damage to the wings and vertical stabilizer.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5833E
- Reported as
- Avions Max Holste MH 1521 Broussard
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27
- Engine
- P&W R-985 SERIES, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Soldotna, AK
- Destination
- NA · Skwentna, AK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- NA · private, runway 09, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 1,000 total · 10 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 10, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 639 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.