- Date
- July 3, 1992, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Winnemucca, NV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N120FRO'Donnell Lancair 235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920703029479I
- Case key
- 27673
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the aircraft during the landing roll.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot said he lost directional control of the aircraft after touchdown and could not correct the situation prior to the aircraft veering off the runway and colliding with a raised lip of a concrete slab.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N120FR
- Reported as
- O'Donnell Lancair 235 (LANCAIR 23)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 120
- Airframe hours
- 84
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-GPU, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Francis W. O'Donnell
- Registered owner
- Francis W. O'Donnell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 4, 1991 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- 67L · Mesquite, NV
- Airport
- WMC · Winnemucca Muni, runway 14, 6,008 × 75 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 685 total · 80 in this make and model · 609 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- WMC, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.