- Date
- September 19, 2024, 10:03 local (16:03 UTC)
- Place
- Kremmling, CO · Airport
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N822TLCub Crafters CCX-2000
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: 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
- Federal Aviation Administration - Denver FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240919014359A
- Case key
- 195222
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during an aborted landing.
Findings · 2
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 was conducting a three-point landing in his tailwheel-equipped airplane when it began drifting left of the runway centerline after touchdown. The pilot decided to abort the landing by moving the throttle to full engine power. However, with the additional left-turning-tendencies associated with the engine at takeoff power, the pilot was unable to maintain directional control and the airplane departed off the left side of the runway and into a drainage swale. The airplane became briefly airborne below normal rotation airspeed as it ascended from the opposite side of the drainage swale, after which the airplane pitched down and impacted the ground nose first. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and engine mounts. The pilot did not report any mechanical malfunctions with the airplane and postulated that the accident might have been avoided had he continued with the full-stop landing (instead of aborting the landing).
Aircraft
- Registration
- N822TL
- Reported as
- Cub Crafters CCX-2000
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CCX-2000-0191
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 26
- Engine
- Carbon Cub CC363i, 186 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- River Bay Aviation Cub, LLC
- Registered owner
- River Bay Aviation Cub, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 24, 2024 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- SBS · Steamboat Springs, CO
- Destination
- 20V · Kremmling, CO
- Airport
- 20V · Mc Elroy Airfield, runway 09, 5,540 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Stall warning system, Onboard weather
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 1, 2024
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,728 total · 15 in this make and model · 1,558 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- 20V
- METAR
- METAR K20V 191555Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 09/M01 A3027 RMK AO2=
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.9 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.