- Date
- July 28, 2023, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Charleston, WV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N28ZVCub Crafters CCX-1865
- 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-FSDO
- Case key
- 192780
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 direction control during the landing roll.
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
The pilot reported that during the landing roll the airplane veered left, and he was unable to correct before the airplane impacted a tree, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28ZV
- Reported as
- Cub Crafters CCX-1865
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CCX-1865-0008
- Built
- 2015
- Airframe hours
- 357.39
- Engine
- Lycoming CC-340, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Triple Bee Transport LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 19, 2023
- Departed
- KCRW · Charleston, WV
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- WV12 · Mallory, runway 33, 1,850 × 23 ft, asphalt
- 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
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 12, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 14,240 total · 0 in this make and model · 13,900 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KCRW, 8 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCRW 281554Z 25006KT 10SM FEW032 SCT150 BKN250 31/24 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP188 T03060239 $=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 28, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 MB in all.