- Date
- September 8, 2025, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chisana, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9930DJeremy Price Smith Super CUB
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250908012699A
- Case key
- 200994
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
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 was departing from a remote strip in his tailwheel-equipped airplane. He reported that, during the takeoff roll, the airplane encountered a strong crosswind from the left. The airplane veered to the right, and the pilot attempted to correct with opposite rudder and aileron; however, the airplane departed the right side of the runway and impacted a rut in the river, which collapsed the left main landing gear; the left wing subsequently struck the ground, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9930D
- Reported as
- Jeremy Price Smith Super CUB
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- JP001
- Built
- 2025
- Airframe hours
- 53
- Engine
- Lycoming AE10-360-B2F, 185 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · April 28, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- NONE
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 1, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,420 total · 53 in this make and model · 2,420 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 14 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- Observed at
- PAGK, 86 nm away
- METAR
- PAGK 081953Z AUTO 15014G21KT 10SM CLR 12/08 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP112 T01170078 TSNO $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 22, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.7 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.