- Date
- September 13, 2007, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grangeville, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N319AMAviat A-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20070913020749I
- Case key
- 66683
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. Factors include a ditch located between the runway and the taxiway.
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
After an uneventful touchdown in calm winds, the pilot failed to maintain directional control of the tailwheel-equipped aircraft during the landing roll. After the aircraft departed the right side of the runway, it encountered a ditch located between the runway and the taxiway, and was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no anomalies or malfunctions in the aircraft's flight controls or tailwheel steering systems.
Factual narrative
After an uneventful touchdown in calm winds, the pilot failed to maintain directional control of the tailwheel-equipped aircraft during the landing roll. After the aircraft departed the right side of the runway, it encountered a ditch located between the runway and the taxiway, and was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no anomalies or malfunctions in the aircraft's flight controls or tailwheel steering systems.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N319AM
- Reported as
- Aviat A-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2319
- Engines
- Lycoming O-360-A1P, reciprocatingLycoming O-360-A1P, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jon Hudson
- Registered owner
- Jon and Berkley Hudson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KBZN · Bozeman, MT
- Destination
- S80 · Grangeville, ID
- Airport
- S80 · Grangeville Airport, runway 07, 5,100 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 218 total · 91 in this make and model · 22 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.