- Date
- January 20, 2023, 18:30, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Hyannis, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N717DJAmerican Champion 8KCAB
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA - FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230120002069A
- Case key
- 106622
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 clearance from a snowbank during landing, which resulted in a nose-over.
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
During the landing roll of a night landing, the airplane contacted a 12-inch high snowbank on the right side of the runway and nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the rudder. The pilot reported that there was about 15 ft of unplowed snow on the right side of the runway and about 6ft of unplowed snow on the left side of the 50 ft wide runway. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N717DJ
- Reported as
- American Champion 8KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1121-2012
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 1,336
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Flying W Ranch
- Registered owner
- Flying W Ranch
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 19, 2023
- Departed
- 69K · Wamego, KS
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 1V2 · Grant County, runway 17, 3,970 × 50 ft, snow
- Equipment
- ADS-B
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 12, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 500 in this make and model · 15,000 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 270° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KAIA, 46 nm away
- METAR
- KAIA 210053Z AUTO 27004KT 10SM CLR M07/M09 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP260 T10721089=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 2, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.7 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.