- Date
- May 25, 2000, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Salina, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N63827Rosenvall Avid MK IV
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000525012939A
- Case key
- 49333
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during landing roll. A factor was gusting winds from nearby thunderstorms.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot said that several thunderstorms had just passed over the airfield. After he landed, a gust of wind struck the airplane, and it departed the right side of runway 02. He said that the airplane impacted rough terrain, and as a result, the right wing tip was bent and the fuselage fabric was wrinkled.
Factual narrative
On May 25, 2000, at 1500 mountain daylight time, a Rosenvall Avid MK IV experimental amateur-built airplane, N63827, was substantially damaged during landing at Salina-Gunnison Airport, Salina, Utah. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant in the airplane, was not injured. The airplane was being operated by the pilot under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local flight that originated approximately 30 minutes before the accident. No flight plan had been filed.
The pilot said that several thunderstorms had just passed over the airfield. After he landed, a gust of wind struck the airplane, and it departed the right side of runway 02. He said that the airplane impacted rough terrain, and as a result, the right wing tip was bent and the fuselage fabric was wrinkled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63827
- Reported as
- Rosenvall Avid MK IV
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 19245
- Airframe hours
- 48
- Engine
- Subaru EA-81, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Don C. Rosenvall (Clyde)
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 20, 2000 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- RIF · Richfield, UT
- Destination
- 44U
- Airport
- 44U · Salina-Gunnison Airport, runway 2, 3,815 × 60 ft, asphalt
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
- 72
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 48 in this make and model · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PVU, 75 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.