- Date
- June 17, 2023, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Odessa, MO
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4287YTipton Kitfox Kitfox IV
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- 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
- FAA report
- 20230617006799A
- Case key
- 192388
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 attain the proper touchdown speed, which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent 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
The pilot reported that during landing, the airplane touched down “slightly fast” and the airplane departed the end of the turf runway into an overrun area that had softer ground. When the airplane entered the overrun, it nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4287Y
- Reported as
- Tipton Kitfox Kitfox IV (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1661T1
- Built
- 1994
- Airframe hours
- 282
- Engine
- Rotax 912UL, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · February 26, 2023 · 5 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 29MO · Rollert Farm, runway 18, 1,000 × 60 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- 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
- 78
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 4, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 9,189 total · 52 in this make and model · 6,911 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 16,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- KMCI, 38 nm away
- METAR
- KMCI 171653Z 13008KT 10SM BKN160 BKN 250 27/19 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP110 T02720189 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.0 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.