- Date
- March 2, 2011, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ridgely, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N435SAIniziative Industriali Italian SKY Arrow 600 Sport
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 8, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA Baltimore FSDO
- FAA report
- 20110302004409A
- Case key
- 78494
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to compensate for crosswind conditions and loss of directional control during landing, resulting in a runway excursion and nose over.
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 landed with a left crosswind and the airplane started veering to the right. The pilot removed the crosswind correction while applying the brakes with the brake handle which was located on the control stick. The airplane continued off the right side of the runway. The nose landing gear dug into the grass and the airplane nosed over inverted into a ditch. Both wings and the tail section sustained structural damage. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The pilot landed with a left crosswind and the airplane started veering to the right. The pilot removed the crosswind correction while applying the brakes with the brake handle which was located on the control stick. The airplane continued off the right side of the runway. The nose landing gear dug into the grass, and the airplane nosed over inverted into a ditch. Both wings and the tail section sustained structural damage. The pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane before the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N435SA
- Reported as
- Iniziative Industriali Italian SKY Arrow 600 Sport
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LSA005
- Airframe hours
- 616
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lewis F. Gayner
- Registered owner
- Csp Leasing LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 30, 2010 · 82 hours before
- Departed
- RJD · Ridgely, MD
- Destination
- RJD · Ridgely, MD
- Airport
- RJD · Ridgley Airpark, runway 30, 3,214 × 50 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
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Sport Pilot
- Last flight review
- October 10, 2010
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 231 total · 100 in this make and model · 196 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.23 inHg
- Observed at
- ESN, 13 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 29, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 418 KB 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.
Other investigations on N435SA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.