- Date
- March 26, 2025, 10:23 local (15:23 UTC)
- Place
- Rusk, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7770JJust Highlander
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/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
- FAA - North Texas FSDO
- Case key
- 199918
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing with a crosswind.
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 was attempting to land with a crosswind, and upon touchdown, a gust of wind lifted the right wing. The pilot attempted to correct with full right aileron but was unsuccessful. The airplane’s left wing contacted the ground, and the airplane came to rest inverted resulting in substantial damage to both wings, the fuselage, and the vertical stabilizer. The pilot stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7770J
- Reported as
- Just Highlander
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- JA631-06-21
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 4
- Engine
- Yamaha 998 Sidewinder, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Flight test · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · February 20, 2025
- Departed
- T25 · Frankston, TX
- Destination
- JSO · Jacksonville, TX
- Airport
- KJSO · Cherokee County, runway 32, 5,006 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot
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
- 48
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Military, Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 3, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 4 in this make and model · 300 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.24 inHg
- Observed at
- KJSO
- METAR
- KJSO 261515Z AUTO 05006KT 10SM OVC065 20/13 A3024 RMK AO2 T02030132,M
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 3, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB in all.