- Date
- May 2, 2010, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Los Alamos, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N72RZCubcrafters CC11-160
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100502033799A
- Case key
- 75904
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind conditions resulting in the loss of directional control while landing.
Findings · 4
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
The private pilot reported that he was landing the tail wheel-equipped airplane at a privately-owned grass airstrip with a "slight" crosswind. He reported that after touchdown, during the landing roll, he lost directional control of the airplane and it collided with an unoccupied parked vehicle adjacent to the runway. The collision resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. No mechanical deficiencies or anomalies with the airplane were reported.
Factual narrative
The private pilot reported that he was landing the tail wheel-equipped airplane at a privately-owned grass airstrip with a "slight" crosswind. He reported that after touchdown during the landing roll, he lost directional control of the airplane and it collided with an unoccupied parked vehicle adjacent to the runway. The collision resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. No mechanical deficiencies or anomalies with the airplane were reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N72RZ
- Reported as
- Cubcrafters CC11-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC11-00105
- Airframe hours
- 40
- Engine
- Cub Crafters CC 340, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronald Ziegler
- Registered owner
- Oregon Investment Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · October 30, 2009 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- 1ZA · Santa Ynez, CA
- Destination
- PVT · Los Alamos, CA
- Airport
- PVT · Private, runway 36, 2,300 × 50 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
- 72
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 21, 2009
- Flight hours
- 3,350 total · 590 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 6, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 231 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.