- Date
- September 16, 2021, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Burlington, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1061YNavion Navion H
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration; Milwaukee FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210916018049A
- Case key
- 104163
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’s failure to maintain aircraft control during landing with a gusting crosswind that resulted in an aerodynamic stall and a hard impact on the runway.
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 reported that during his second attempt at practicing a crosswind landing, he encountered an increased crosswind, shear, and gust. To prevent the airplane from drifting off the side of the runway, he lowered the right wing into the wind when the airplane was about 4-5 ft. above the runway. The airplane then stalled and landed hard on the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to right wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was taking off on runway 11 with wind 170o at 12 knots with gusts to 18 knots.
Factual narrative
The private pilot of the personal flight stated that during his second attempt at practicing a crosswind takeoff and landing, he encountered an increased crosswind/gust. To prevent the airplane from drifting off the side of the runway, he lowered the right wing into the wind when the airplane was about 4-5 ft. above the runway. The airplane then stalled and experienced a hard landing on the runway that resulted in substantial damage to right wing. The pilot stated there was no mechanical malfunction/failure of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1061Y
- Reported as
- Navion Navion H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- NAV-4-2531
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 2,895.3
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pilot
- Registered owner
- Pilot
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 21, 2021
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BUU · Burlington Airport, runway 11, 4,300 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 28, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 480 total · 11 in this make and model · 392 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 0 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- BUU
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 28, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.