- Date
- May 21, 2026, 11:52 local (15:52 UTC)
- Place
- Jaffrey, NH
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N732JGGranito Joseph R RV-7A
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 11, 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
- 20260521005279A
- Case key
- 203037
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 pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during landing, which resulted in a touchdown off the paved runway surface and a collision with terrain during the subsequent aborted landing.
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 was landing the airplane at the destination airport and reported that during the landing approach, just before touchdown, the airplane suddenly drifted to the left. The airplane’s main landing gear briefly touched down off to the left side of the 134-ft-wide asphalt runway before the airplane became airborne again. The pilot added power to abort the landing, but heard a “rotating, whirring, vibration” noise from under the airplane and perceived that the airplane was not accelerating like he though it should. The airplane subsequently impacted the ground, nosed over, and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage, right wing, and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N732JG
- Reported as
- Granito Joseph R RV-7A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 74732
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 91.7
- Engine
- Lycoming YO-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 15, 2026
- Departed
- 5B0 · Selkirk, NY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- AFN · Jaffrey Airfield Silver Ranch, runway 34, 2,982 × 134 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot
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
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 4, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 203 total · 98 in this make and model · 203 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.23 inHg
- Observed at
- AFN
- METAR
- METAR KAFN 211552Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM FEW110 14/02 A3023
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 10, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.4 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.