- Date
- February 11, 2024, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Poole, NE · pilot's personal property
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N122HUAviat A1
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Runway excursion
- 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
- 194261
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Probable cause
The non-certificated pilot’s failure to configure the airplane for takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion.
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 non-certificated pilot reported that he forgot to adjust the airplane’s propeller control before takeoff from his private airstrip. During takeoff, the airplane overran the runway and impacted parked machinery on his personal property. The airplane sustained substantial damage to its fuselage. The pilot did not make the airplane available for examination and did not cooperate with local and federal investigators; therefore, further information could not be obtained.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N122HU
- Reported as
- Aviat A1 (A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1409
- Built
- 1998
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-SER, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- pvt · pvt, runway pvt, unknown
- Equipment
- Unknown
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 71
- Injuries
- Serious
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 0 total · 0 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Observed at
- EAR, 16 nm away
- METAR
- 112256Z AUTO 31008KT 10SM CLR 06/M04 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP187 T00611044
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 22, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 418 KB in all.