- Date
- June 2, 2024, 08:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7170AMorgan Edward L Edge X 582
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- 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/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240602007249A
- Case key
- 194465
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 selection of an unsuitable landing site, resulting in a collision with a hole during landing rollout.
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 reported that, while landing at an off-airport site, during landing roll, the nose wheel hit a hole, and the aircraft nosed over and came to rest inverted. The aircraft sustained substantial damage to the wing keel. The pilot reported there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the aircraft that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7170A
- Reported as
- Morgan Edward L Edge X 582
- Category
- Weight-shift, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 582-646
- Built
- 2004
- Engine
- Rotax 582, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Departed
- pvt · Faribanks, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- May 4, 2024
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.33 inHg
- Observed at
- AEI, 34 nm away
- METAR
- PAEI 021555Z 00000KT 10SM BKN100 13/05 A2933 RMK AO2A SLP934 T01310050
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 28, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 12.4 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.