- Date
- May 27, 2011, 14:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Goldthwaite, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N844ESCubCrafters CC11-160
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 3, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- Case key
- 79274
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Probable cause
The pilot's encounter with a berm during the landing roll, resulting in the airplane nosing over.
Findings · 1
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
During the off-airport landing roll to an area of mowed grass, the airplane impacted a berm and nosed over, coming to rest inverted. The top of the rudder was crushed and a wing strut on the left side was bent. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
During the off airport landing roll to an area of mowed grass, the airplane impacted a berm and nosed over, coming to rest inverted. The top of the rudder was crushed and a wing strut on the left side was bent. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N844ES
- Reported as
- CubCrafters CC11-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC11-00146
- Airframe hours
- 37
- Engine
- CubCrafters CC 340, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · October 8, 2010
- Departed
- KBWD · Brownwood, TX
- Destination
- Goldthwaite, TX
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
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 11, 2011
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,212 total · 21 in this make and model · 32 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 14 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.76 inHg
- Observed at
- KBMQ, 50 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 3, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 MB in all.