- Date
- June 9, 2024, 16:35 local (21:35 UTC)
- Place
- Slaton, TX
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88026Stinson Vultee V-77
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- Case key
- 194420
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control after landing in gusting wind conditions which resulted in a runway excursion and the airplane nosing over. Contributing was the pilot’s decision to conduct the flight in very strong, gusting wind conditions.
Findings · 4
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 and as he was preparing to turn onto a taxiway, they encountered a gust of wind. The airplane departed the left side of the runway and nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage, left and right wings, and the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the airplane had landed on runway 17 with recorded wind of 030o at 21 knots, gusting to 44 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88026
- Reported as
- Stinson Vultee V-77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 77-411
- Built
- 1944
- Engine
- Lycoming R-680-13, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Texas Air Museum
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 3, 2023 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- KLBB · Lubbock, TX
- Airport
- F49 · City Of Slaton/Larry T Neal Meml, runway 18/36, 4,244 × 75 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
- 78
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 20, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 31,103 total · 20 in this make and model · 30,424 as pilot in command · 101 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 21 knots, gusting 44
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KLBB, 14 nm away
- METAR
- SPECI KLBB 092134Z 03021G44KT 6SM TS BLDU BKN070CB BKN095 BKN140 25/16 A2995 RMK AO2 PK WND 03044/2128 WSHFT 2110 LTG DSNT NE TSB14 OCNL LTGICCG NW-NE TS NW-NE MOV W T02500156 $=
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 25, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.4 MB in all.