- Date
- June 17, 2023, 16:25 local (Jun 18, 2023, 00:25 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK · RWY 32 Lake Hood Strip
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N5075TBuck/Crawford/Crawford Christavia MK-1
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20230618007869A
- Case key
- 192408
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during takeoff, which resulted in a wing impacting a runway light.
Findings · 2
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 flight instructor reported that he was conducting tailwheel training in a tailwheel-equipped airplane. During takeoff with a left crosswind, the instructor prompted the pilot receiving training to focus on keeping left aileron control input to compensate for the crosswind during departure. During the takeoff roll the flight instructor realized the airplane had drifted to the right side of the runway. He took control of the airplane, banked the airplane left, and added left rudder, and the left wing struck a runway light, resulting in substantial damage to the wing and aileron. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5075T
- Reported as
- Buck/Crawford/Crawford Christavia MK-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 237
- Built
- 1993
- Airframe hours
- 903
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290 SERIES, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 24, 2023 · 4 hours before
- Destination
- PABV · Chugiak, AK
- Airport
- LHD · Lake Hood Airport, runway 32, 2,200 × 75 ft, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 1, 2021
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,096 total · 14 in this make and model · 1,043 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Military
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Powered-lift, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 26, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 473 total · 2 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- PALH
- METAR
- PALH 180153Z AUTO 28005KT 10SM OVC060 16/06 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP192 T01610061 TSNO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 26, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 30.5 MB 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.