- Date
- March 12, 2015, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hondo, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N638JJabiru USA Sport J250 SP
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 13, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA (SAT FSDO)
- FAA report
- 20150312006399A
- Case key
- 90890
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control. Contributing to this accident was the flight instructor's delayed remedial action.
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
During an instructional flight, the student pilot and flight instructor remained in the local area to practice maneuvers. On return to the airport, during the first full stop landing, the student pilot landed in a flat attitude, but left of centerline. During the landing roll, the student pilot veered left onto an intersecting runway and the flight instructor applied the hand brake. The airplane overran the width of the intersecting runway into rough terrain, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over resulting in substantial damage to the firewall and right wing lift strut. Both occupants reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation; however, the student pilot stated that a gust of wind caused the airplane to veer to the left. The flight instructor's statement and weather reports indicate that there were no wind gusts at the time of the accident.
Factual narrative
During an instructional flight, the student pilot and flight instructor remained in the local area to practice maneuvers. On return to the airport, during the first full stop landing, the student pilot landed in a flat attitude, but left of centerline. During the landing roll, the student pilot veered left onto an intersecting runway and the flight instructor applied the hand brake. The airplane overran the width of the intersecting runway into rough terrain, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over resulting in substantial damage to the firewall and right wing lift strut. Both occupants reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation; however, the student pilot stated that a gust of wind caused the airplane to veer to the left. The flight instructor's statement and weather reports indicate that there were no wind gusts at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N638J
- Reported as
- Jabiru USA Sport J250 SP (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 523
- Built
- 2008
- Engine
- Jabiru 3300, 120 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Departed
- HDO · Hondo, TX
- Destination
- HDO · Hondo, TX
- Airport
- KHDO · South Texas Regional Airport, runway 35L, 3,224 × 140 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
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 28, 2015
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 21,000 total · 3 in this make and model · 11,000 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 147 total · 16 in this make and model · 42 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KHDO
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 28, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.8 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.