- Date
- March 30, 2024, 17:40 local (Mar 31, 2024, 00:40 UTC)
- Place
- Hermiston, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N188CGCory Green Kitfox Series 7 STI
- 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
- 20240330003339A
- Case key
- 194056
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff, which resulted in a nose over. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Findings · 4
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 and the pilot receiving instruction were practicing takeoffs and landings in a tailwheel-equipped airplane. During takeoff, the pilot receiving instruction applied excessive right rudder and the airplane went to the right, he relieved the right rudder, and the airplane veered to the left, traveling diagonally across the runway. The flight instructor applied aft pressure on the stick to get the airplane airborne, simultaneously the pilot receiving instruction reduced the throttle to idle. The airplane bounced and impacted terrain and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, empennage and wings. The pilot reported no pre-impact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N188CG
- Reported as
- Cory Green Kitfox Series 7 STI
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- KA18184375
- Built
- 2021
- Airframe hours
- 70.7
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bracher Farms
- Registered owner
- Bracher Farms
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · January 23, 2024 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- KHRI · Hermiston, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KHRI · Hermiston Municipal Airport, runway 23, 451 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display
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
- Pilot
- Age
- 32
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 17, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 944 total · 17 in this make and model · 885 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Last flight review
- June 28, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 82 total · 3 in this make and model · 26 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.73 inHg
- Observed at
- GCD, 36 nm away
- METAR
- KGCD 310055Z AUTO 33008G15KT 10SM OVC070 10/M06 A2973 RMK AO2 T01001056
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 2, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.0 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.