- Date
- June 19, 2024, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- East Troy, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N355VTFoskett James J CH 750 Cruiser
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- FAA report
- 20240619013339I
- Case key
- 194507
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 directional control during landing in gusting crosswind conditions.
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 he and the pilot-rated passenger were practicing takeoffs and landings in the airport traffic pattern. During the fifth touch-and-go landing, a left quartering wind gust lifted the airplane’s tail and the airplane landed hard on the nose landing gear. The nose wheel separated, and the airplane came to rest on its nose in the grass. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident the airplane was landing on runway 26 with wind variable at 5 knots, gusting to about 12 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N355VT
- Reported as
- Foskett James J CH 750 Cruiser
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- C75-11725
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 44.3
- Engine
- UL Power 350iS, 130 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Foskett James J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 6, 2024
- Airport
- 57C · East Troy Muni, runway 8/26, 3,900 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 9, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,142 total · 8.7 in this make and model · 1,114 as pilot in command · 10.1 in the last 90 days · 10.1 in the last 30 days · 2.5 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KBUU, 7 nm away
- METAR
- KBUU 191535Z AUTO 22009G14KT 10SM CLR 29/21 A3017 RMK AO2 T02860208 PWINO
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 25, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 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.