- Date
- June 5, 2014, 11:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Middleton, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N752JJabiru USA Sport J230-SP
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- FAA report
- 20140605009369A
- Case key
- 89446
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
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 stated he was taking off from a turf runway and he did not maintain directional control of the airplane on the soft runway surface. The airplane struck a runway edge marker, substantially damaging the airplane at the gear strut attachment point. The pilot reported there were no anomalies with the airplane prior to impact.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated he was taking off from a turf runway and he did not maintain directional control of the airplane on the soft runway surface. The airplane struck a runway edge marker, substantially damaging the airplane at the gear strut attachment point. The pilot reported there were no anomalies with the airplane prior to impact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N752J
- Reported as
- Jabiru USA Sport J230-SP (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 804
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 216
- Engine
- Jabiru 3300A, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Read William Charles
- Registered owner
- Read William Charles
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Departed
- C29 · Middleton, WI
- Destination
- MSN · Madison, WI
- Airport
- C29 · Middleton Muni - Morey Field, runway 19, 2,000 × 120 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 73
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 16, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 558 total · 156 in this make and model · 382 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- C29
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 10, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 966 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.