- Date
- June 15, 1991, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Manville, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N222KMVans RV-4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910615021919A
- Case key
- 36756
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane after an aborted landing, which resulted in the airplane colliding with a mound of dirt off the runway.
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 landed his homebuilt airplane on runway 25. After touchdown, he felt he 'was not totally lined up' on the runway, so he initiated a go-around. The airplane departed the left side of the runway at approximately the halfway point, became airborne, and failed to clear a mound of dirt which was about 15 feet high and located approximately 125 feet away. It nosed over and came to rest inverted on the FAR side of the mound.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N222KM
- Reported as
- Vans RV-4
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 337
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Komoroski, Edward J.
- Registered owner
- Komoroski, Edward J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 39N · Princeton, NJ
- Airport
- 47N · Kupper Airport, runway 25, 3,450 × 50 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 350 total · 65 in this make and model · 280 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.