- Date
- May 19, 1993, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Nampa, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N100QLarkin Pitts Special
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930519014569A
- Case key
- 43028
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain directional control during landing ground 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 aircraft swerved off the runway during landing ground roll, ground looped and impacted terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N100Q
- Reported as
- Larkin Pitts Special (PITTS SPEC)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- KL-2
- Airframe hours
- 647
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C2B, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mcculloch, Chris P.
- Registered owner
- Mcculloch, Chris P.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 12, 1993 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- PSC · Pasco, WA
- Airport
- S67 · Nampa Municipal, runway 11, 4,050 × 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7,785 total · 200 in this make and model · 7,026 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- U35, 6 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.
Other investigations on N100Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.