- Date
- June 13, 2004, 10:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hays, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N70718Youkey Lancair 235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 1, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Wichita, KS FSDO
- FAA report
- 20040613022419A
- Case key
- 59632
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions and his failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll. Factors associated with the accident were the gusty crosswind, the runway marker sign, and the taxiway lights which were contacted.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The airplane contacted a runway marker sign and taxiway lights following a loss of directional control during a landing roll. The airplane departed the runway approximately 3,000 feet from the approach end. It traveled off the east (left) side of the runway where it contacted the sign and taxiway lights prior to coming to rest a couple hundred feet off the side of the runway. The landing was being made on runway 16 and the local winds reported 10 minutes prior to the accident were from 190 degrees at 23 knots gusting to 28 knots.
Factual narrative
On June 13, 2004, at 1045 central daylight time, a Lancair 235, N70718, collided with a runway marker sign and taxiway lights while landing on runway 16 (6,500 feet by 100 feet, concrete) at the Hays Regional Airport, Hays, Kansas. The private pilot and passenger on board were not injured. The airplane received substantial damage. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The flight originated from Sedalia, Missouri, at 0715.
The owner of the local fixed base operator stated the airplane departed the runway approximately 3,000 feet from the approach end. He stated the airplane traveled off the east (left) side of the runway where it contacted the sign and taxiway lights prior to coming to rest a couple hundred feet off the side of the runway.
Local winds reported at 1035 were from 190 degrees at 23 knots gusting to 28 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70718
- Reported as
- Youkey Lancair 235
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 037
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John N. Youkey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- DMO · Sedalia, MO
- Destination
- HYS · Hays, KS
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 166 total · 44 in this make and model · 48 in the last 90 days · 31 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 23 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- HYS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.