- Date
- September 13, 2013, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Conway, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N667JJabiru USA Sport J230-SP
- Defining event
- Landing: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 21, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 88051
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper landing approach speed and touchdown point, which resulted in a runway excursion after touchdown and collision with a blast fence.
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 stated that while on final approach to the airport, the airplane’s airspeed was too high and he overshot his intended touchdown point. Once the airplane touched down, the pilot was unable to stop the airplane before it continued off the end of the runway. The left wing struck a blast fence and then came to rest against the airport perimeter fence. The left wing was substantially damaged. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that while on final approach to the airport, the airplane’s airspeed was too high and he overshot his intended touchdown point. Once the airplane touched down, the pilot was unable to stop the airplane before and it continued off the end of the runway. The left wing struck a blast fence and then came to rest against the airport perimeter fence. The left wing was substantially damaged. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N667J
- Reported as
- Jabiru USA Sport J230-SP (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 574
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 241
- Engine
- Jabiru 3300A, 120 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Loyd Mitchell
- Registered owner
- Loyd Mitchell & Walter Malinowski
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 5, 2013
- Departed
- MVN · Mount Vernon, IL
- Destination
- X09 · Fulshear, TX
- Airport
- CWS · Dennis F Cantrell Field, runway 26, 4,875 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Sport Pilot, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot, Unknown
- Last flight review
- September 14, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 7 in this make and model · 2,500 as pilot in command · 67 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KLRF, 17 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 24, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 658 KB in all.
Other investigations on N667J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.