- Date
- April 20, 2009, 10:10 local (15:10 UTC)
- Place
- Hollister, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N931CEZenith CH-250
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Kansas City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20090420005489A
- Case key
- 73700
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
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 pilot seated in the left seat reported that he was the flying pilot when the accident occurred. He reported that he overcorrected during a crosswind landing. The airplane swerved to the left and right of centerline two times before veering off the right side of the runway. The airplane traveled down the slope covered with wet grass and impacted an elevated service road and culvert. The airplane sustained substantial damage when the nose and right main landing gear collapsed.
Factual narrative
The pilot seated in the left seat reported that he was the flying pilot when the accident occurred. He reported that he overcorrected during a crosswind landing. The airplane swerved to the left and right of centerline two times before veering off the right side of the runway. The airplane traveled down a slope covered with wet grass and impacted an elevated service road and culvert. The airplane sustained substantial damage when the nose and right main landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N931CE
- Reported as
- Zenith CH-250
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1502524CE
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Willam Maxey
- Registered owner
- John H. Linke
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- K81 · Paola, MO
- Destination
- PLK · Hollister, MO
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- PLK · Clark-Taney County Airport, runway 29, 3,739 × 100 ft
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 220 total · 7 in this make and model · 156 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Other flight crew
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Last flight review
- March 13, 2009
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 220 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 10 knots, gusting 12
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.