- Date
- April 24, 2008, 09:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Bluff, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N134DDAviat A-1C-200
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 28, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20080424832429A
- Case key
- 67887
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate short-field landing procedure and excessive airspeed that resulted in a landing overrun. Contributing to the accident were gusting unfavorable winds, the short runway, and rocks off the departure end of the strip.
Findings · 6
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
While landing at a 1,000-foot-long remote dirt airstrip, the pilot encountered gusting variable winds. He said that while focusing on compensating for those winds, he failed to slow the airplane sufficiently. After touchdown, the airplane ran off the end of the airstrip, encountered rocks, and nosed over onto its back.
Factual narrative
During the landing roll at a 1,000 foot long remote dirt airstrip, the pilot encountered gusting winds that varied in the their direction. While focused on compensating for the unfavorable winds, the pilot failed to slow the airplane sufficiently to ensure that it could be stopped prior to reaching the end of the airstrip. The airplane therefore overran the end of the airstrip, impacted a number of large rocks, and flipped over onto its back. The accident sequence resulted in damage to the top of the vertical stabilizer, and a permanent bend in both of the lift struts on the left side of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N134DD
- Reported as
- Aviat A-1C-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3015
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1D6, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- John L. Moss, doing business as GJ Hangar, LLC
- Registered owner
- GJ Hangar, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- U66 · Bluff, UT
- Destination
- Bluff, UT
- Airport
- NONE · Zahn Bay, runway 04, 1,000 × 40 ft, dirt
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
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 4,073 total · 324 in this make and model · 55 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 5 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N134DD · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.