- Date
- September 25, 2022, 14:11 local (20:11 UTC)
- Place
- Del Norte, CO · rwy
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18NHHibbard Norman E Thorp T-18
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- FAA Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20220925015859A
- Case key
- 106002
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 loss of airplane control during landing due to a wind gust.
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
According to the pilot, the wind at the airport was from “082° at 7 knots” based on the automated observation. He entered a right traffic pattern and saw “no change” on the windsock before landing. After landing, the passenger commented that the windsock had changed. About that time, “the right wing came back up” and the airplane “swerved” to the right. The pilot initially added full engine power to go-around; however, he was unable to regain directional control and reduced engine power to idle. The airplane departed the runway and subsequently nosed over. The pilot reported that there were no anomalies which would have precluded normal operation. The vertical stabilizer and rudder sustained substantial damage during the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18NH
- Reported as
- Hibbard Norman E Thorp T-18
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1313
- Built
- 1993
- Airframe hours
- 622.7
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · September 1, 2022
- Departed
- SEZ · Sedona, AZ
- Destination
- RCV · Del Norte, CO
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RCV · Astronaut Kent Rominger, runway 6, 6,051 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Satellite tracking device, Handheld GPS
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
- 78
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 14, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 10,200 total · 250 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.43 inHg
- Observed at
- KRCV, 0.5 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRCV 252015Z AUTO 12006KT 10SM CLR 21/02 A3043
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 18, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 878 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.