- Date
- November 28, 2025, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Okeechobee, FL · on airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N711Cub Crafters Carbon Cub FX2
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2026
- 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
- 20251128017259A
- Case key
- 202094
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing in a crosswind.
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 reported that he was landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane in a 13 knot right crosswind that was gusting to 20 knots. During the landing, the airplane departed the left side of the runway and struck the airport perimeter fence, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage and wings. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N711
- Reported as
- Cub Crafters Carbon Cub FX2 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CCX-1865-0039
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 226
- Engine
- Lycoming CC363I, 186 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- F45 · West Palm Beach, FL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OBE · Okeechobee County, runway 32, 4,001 × 75 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 20, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,750 total · 265 in this make and model · 2,750 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 13 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- KOBE
- METAR
- METAR KOBE 281655Z AUTO 03013G20KT 10SM CLR 19/08 A3021
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 21, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 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.