- Date
- July 23, 2015, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hazleton, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N518JWWelch Floyd L Quickie Q 2
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20150723011449A
- Case key
- 91671
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway excursion and nose over.
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 reported that after the initial touch down the airplane had a "left turning tendency", veered off the runway to the left into deep grass, and nosed over. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left main wing.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that after the initial touch down the airplane had a "left turning tendency", veered off the runway to the left into deep grass, and nosed over. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left main wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N518JW
- Reported as
- Welch Floyd L Quickie Q 2 (Q2)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 85.1
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100D, 75 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Adam Jacques
- Registered owner
- Adam Jacques
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · March 9, 2015
- Departed
- HZL · Hazleton, PA
- Destination
- HZL · Hazleton, PA
- Airport
- HZL · Hazleton Rgnl, runway 28, 4,898 × 100 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 16, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 54 total · 0.5 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- KAVP, 24 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 8, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 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.