- Date
- July 7, 2023, 20:30 local (Jul 8, 2023, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lee's Summit, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N201ZMPipistrel Lsa S R L Alpha Trainer
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- 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 FSDO
- Case key
- 192601
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
An engine fire after landing for reasons that could not be determined.
Findings · 1
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
After completion of a local flight, the pilot landed and exited the runway. Shortly after exiting the runway the airplane’s engine stopped running. The pilot attempted to restart the engine, which was unsuccessful, and he noticed smoke. The pilot and passenger exited the airplane and a fire ensued that damaged the forward fuselage and firewall. Postaccident examination of the airplane indicated that the fire was concentrated in an area near the left carburetor. Examination of the carburetor did not reveal any anomalies; however, the extent of the fire damage precluded determination of the source of the fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N201ZM
- Reported as
- Pipistrel Lsa S R L Alpha Trainer
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 913 AT 912 LSA
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 436
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Summit Flight Academy LLC
- Registered owner
- Summit Flight Academy LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 2023
- Airport
- LXT · Lee'S Summit Muni, runway 36, 5,501 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, Airframe parachute, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 18, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 8,750 total · 8 in this make and model · 7,565 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- Observed at
- KLXT
- METAR
- METAR KLXT 080153Z AUTO 09004KT 10SM CLR 23/19 A2985 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT N SLP101 T02330194=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 22, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 MB in all.