- Date
- June 13, 2025, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yellow Pine, ID · Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84FSFrederick Joseph Shiple Kitfox SS7
- 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
- FAA report
- 20250613010759A
- Case key
- 200330
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive application of the airplane’s wheel brakes during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over.
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that the airplane’s approach speed was faster than he expected, and the airplane landed further down the runway than he anticipated. The pilot was concerned with the limited amount of runway remaining during the landing roll and he applied an increasing amount of force to the brakes to stop the airplane. Subsequently, the airplane nosed over and sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and wing lift struts. The pilot reported that there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84FS
- Reported as
- Frederick Joseph Shiple Kitfox SS7
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Built
- 2020
- Engine
- Rotax 912is, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Elk River Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special); Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 7, 2025 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- 3U2 · Johnson Creek, ID
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 24K · Krassel USFS, runway 17/35, 1,500 × 150 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 1, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,372 total · 277 in this make and model · 1,372 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- KMYL, 16 nm away
- METAR
- KMYL 131451Z AUTO 34004KT 10SM CLR 15/06 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP095 T01500056 50003
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 7, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.4 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.