- Date
- July 21, 2013, 12:48 local (16:48 UTC)
- Place
- Logan, WV
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N269KFMillhouse D Scott Kitfox II
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 12, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130721013729A
- Case key
- 87551
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent nose over. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the student.
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
According to the flight instructor (CFI), the student pilot completed one touch-and- go landing and proceeded around the pattern for a second landing. On the approach, the airplane was left of centerline and the CFI asked the student pilot to correct back to runway center line. The second landing was on centerline until touchdown. Upon touchdown the airplane veered to the right and the CFI directed the student pilot to not "fight" the airplane, and attempt to regain control. The CFI stated that the airplane was equipped with flight controls on the right side, but no rudder or brake pedals. The student pilot applied full power to the engine while heading to the right side of the runway. He attempted to takeoff before departing the right side of the runway; however; the airspeed was too slow to maintain flight. The airplane departed the runway on the right, collapsed the nose gear, and came to rest inverted in the grass. The student pilot stated that he should have used more rudder when lining up on the runway. Postaccident examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed bending of the left wing struts, flaperons, vertical stabilizer, and buckling of the fuselage behind the main cabin area. The CFI did not report any mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The CFI reported the wind at the airport, about the time of the accident, to be light and variable with no gusts.
Factual narrative
According to the flight instructor (CFI), the student pilot completed one touch-and- go landing and proceeded around the pattern for a second landing. On the approach, the airplane was left of centerline and the CFI asked the student pilot to correct back to runway center line. The second landing was on centerline until touchdown. Upon touchdown the airplane veered to the right and the CFI directed the student pilot to not "fight" the airplane, and attempt to regain control. The CFI stated that the airplane was equipped with flight controls on the right side, but no rudder or brake pedals. The student pilot applied full power to the engine while heading to the right side of the runway. He attempted to takeoff before departing the right side of the runway; however; the airspeed was too slow to maintain flight. The airplane departed the runway on the right, collapsed the nose gear, and came to rest inverted in the grass. The student pilot stated that he should have used more rudder when lining up on the runway. Postaccident examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed bending of the left wing struts, flaperons, vertical stabilizer, and buckling of the fuselage behind the main cabin area. The CFI did not report any mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The CFI reported the wind at the airport, about the time of the accident, to be light and variable with no gusts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N269KF
- Reported as
- Millhouse D Scott Kitfox II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 269
- Airframe hours
- 284
- Engine
- Rotax 582, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · September 9, 2012 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- 6L4 · Logan, WV
- Destination
- 6L4 · Logan, WV
- Airport
- 6L4 · Logan County Airport, runway 24, 3,605 × 75 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 51
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- February 8, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 32 total · 10 in this make and model
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 58
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Powered-lift
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 27, 2011
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,677 total · 10 in this make and model · 2,485 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- K22, 35 nm away
Docket · 8
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 29, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.4 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.