- Date
- September 3, 2014, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Longmont, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N211ALRoss Alfred K/Oneill Terrence Lancair 235
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 9, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 90022
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent application of the brake which resulted in the loss of directional control during the landing roll.
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 reported that during the landing roll, at a point about two-thirds the way down the runway, the airplane veered to the left. The airplane continued off the left side of the runway, through the rough terrain, over a bump, and into a ditch. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there was no mechanical failure/malfunction of the airplane, and that due to the tight foot space; he most likely inadvertently applied the left brake which resulted in the airplane veering to the left.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing roll, at a point about two-thirds the way down the runway, the airplane veered to the left. The airplane continued off the left side of the runway, through the rough terrain, over a bump, and into a ditch. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there was no mechanical failure/malfunction of the airplane, and that due to the tight foot space; he most likely inadvertently applied the left brake which resulted in the airplane veering to the left.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N211AL
- Reported as
- Ross Alfred K/Oneill Terrence Lancair 235 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 11
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 187
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320 B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · January 31, 2014
- Departed
- MCK · McCook, NE
- Destination
- LMO · Longmont, CO
- Airport
- LMO · Vance Brand Airport, runway 11, 4,799 × 75 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 84
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 23, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,247 total · 193 in this make and model · 17 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Observed at
- LMO
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 3, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 259 KB in all.