- Date
- July 29, 1992, 13:19 local (19:19 UTC)
- Place
- Rawlins, WY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N303VKGreth Cirrus VK30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920729027979A
- Case key
- 42866
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain control of the aircraft. Factors contributing to the accident were: crosswinds and gusts.
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 ascertaining that the windsock favored runway 28 the pilot executed an approach to that runway. The pilot reported that while on short final he 'felt the airplane sink rapidly, applied power to attempt a go-around and felt no response' and that the aircraft 'veered to the right, pitched up' and then crashed coming to rest along the north edge of the runway approximately 200 yards west of the threshold. Surface winds recorded at the airport 30 minutes prior to the accident were from 240 degrees at 20 knots with gusts to 30 knots. Consistent westerly to southwesterly winds between 16 and 22 knots with gusts to 30 knots were reported in the early afternoon of the accident at the airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N303VK
- Reported as
- Greth Cirrus VK30 (CIRRUS VK3)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 003
- Airframe hours
- 70
- Engine
- Greth EAGLE V8, 425 horsepower, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Greth, Gerald N.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- EKO · Elko, NV
- Destination
- BFF · Scottsbluff, NE
- Airport
- RWL · Rawlins Municipal, runway 28, 4,320 × 60 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,469 total · 70 in this make and model · 1,469 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RWL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.