- Date
- May 2, 2013, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, MO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N914ARHook Zodiac CH-650
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Miscellaneous/other
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-MKC-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130502007649A
- Case key
- 86852
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 misjudged the landing approach, which resulted in the airplane hitting a tree.
Findings · 2
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 stated that this was the first time he flew the accident airplane into his private airstrip. He said that the airspeed was too fast and he overshot the airstrip; the left wing hit a tree and the airplane came to rest inverted in a wooded area. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and left wing. The pilot reported there was no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that the airspeed was too fast and he overshot the final approach as he was landing at his private airstrip. The left wing hit a tree and the airplane came to rest inverted in a wooded area. The pilot stated that he was moving the airplane from a friend’s private airstrip to his airstrip at the time of the accident. He had made several approaches to the airstrip, but had not landed this airplane on the airstrip before the accident. The pilot reported there was no mechanical failure/malfunction of the airplane. The airplane received substantial damage to the fuselage and left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N914AR
- Reported as
- Hook Zodiac CH-650
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 65-7533
- Airframe hours
- 2
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronald G. Hook
- Registered owner
- Ronald G. Hook
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 2013
- Departed
- PVT · Doro, MO
- Destination
- PVT · Gainesville, MO
- Airport
- PVT · Pvt, runway 21, 715 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 71
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 30, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,366 total · 3 in this make and model · 14,185 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 21, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 630 KB 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.
Other investigations on N914AR · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.