- Date
- February 28, 2020, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kosciusko, MS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N92MHKitfox 57 Super Sport
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 29, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20200228003779A
- Case key
- 101014
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Probable cause
The pilot's lifting off with the airplane at a high of angle of attack, which resulted in aerodynamic stall.
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 takeoff roll, he lost "lateral" control when he overcorrected to the left. The airplane subsequently lifted off at too high of an angle of attack, stalled, and impacted terrain left of the runway. The fuselage just forward of the empennage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the takeoff roll, he lost lateral control when he overcorrected to the left. The airplane lifted off at too high of an angle of attack, stalled, and impacted terrain to the left of the runway. There was extensive buckling of the fuselage just forward of the empennage. The pilot attributed the accident to "low time tailwheel pilot error." The pilot reported he had logged 110 hours in tailwheel airplanes performing takeoffs and landings, 64 hours of which were in the accident airplane. He added, "Additional tailwheel takeoff experience would have prevented the accident."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92MH
- Reported as
- Kitfox 57 Super Sport
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- KA11128197
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 492
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · June 20, 2019
- Departed
- KOSX · Kosciusko, MS
- Destination
- KGWO · Greenwood, MS
- Airport
- OSX · Kosciusko-Attala County, runway 32, 5,009 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Satellite tracking device
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 20, 2018
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 281 total · 18 in this make and model · 242 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 13, 2019
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,176 total · 1 in this make and model · 5,019 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.79 inHg
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 7, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.9 MB 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.