- Date
- July 27, 1993, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Tooele, UT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N160VRRiches Avid Flyer
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930727025719A
- Case key
- 43046
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The failure of the PIC to maintain directional control and to correct a ground loop/swerve.
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - not correctedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The acft swerved off the runway during landing roll and impacted terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N160VR
- Reported as
- Riches Avid Flyer
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 160
- Airframe hours
- 138
- Engine
- Cuyuna U2-430-RR, 43 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Riches, Verland Mclloyd
- Registered owner
- Riches, Verland Mclloyd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 12, 1991 · 19 hours before
- Airport
- TVY · Tooele Valley, runway 16, 5,500 × 50 ft, asphalt
N160VRRegistered now · Riches V Mclloyd AVID FLYERAirframe modelRiches V Mclloyd AVID FLYEREngine modelCuyuna ALL MDLS A/B
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, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 164 total · 138 in this make and model · 138 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLC, 20 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.