- Date
- July 25, 2022, 09:42 local (13:42 UTC)
- Place
- Calhoun, GA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N199KSEvolution Revolt
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220725023179A
- Case key
- 105578
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Probable cause
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during the landing flare, which resulted in a loss of directional control, a runway excursion, and substantial damage to the airplane.
Findings · 2
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 explained that during the 20-minute flight, the weight-shift airplane was “in good working order with no known problems.” He completed his final approach, and at 2-3 feet above the runway surface, the left wing “stalled.” The airplane rotated to its left, the left main landing gear touched the surface, which rotated the airplane further left, and just after the nose landing gear touched down, the airplane departed the runway to its left about “55 degrees” off the runway heading. The pilot “applied full power” to clear the drainage swale to the airplane’s front but was unsuccessful. The airplane passed through the swale and rolled onto its left side which resulted in a serious injury to the pilot’s ankle and substantial damage to the wing structure. The pilot repeated that there were no pre-accident mechanical anomalies with his airplane that precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N199KS
- Reported as
- Evolution Revolt
- Category
- Weight-shift
- Serial number
- 001012
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 371
- Engine
- Rotax 912 ULS, 100 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sutz Kenneth J
- Registered owner
- Sutz Kenneth J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2022 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- AND · Anderson, SC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CZL · Tom B David Fld, runway 25, 6,034 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Airframe parachute
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
- 67
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificates
- Sport Pilot, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 13, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 668 total · 271 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KCZL
- METAR
- METAR KCZL 251355Z AUTO 20004KT 10SM CLR 27/23 A3015 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 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.