- Date
- September 6, 2010, 10:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Coeur D'Alene, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N515CWChris W Kleen RV-6
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100906041969A
- Case key
- 77068
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 pilot’s inadequate compensation for the crosswind that resulted in a loss of directional control.
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
During landing, the airplane encountered a strong crosswind and veered off the runway. The airplane collided with a runway sign and sustained substantial damage to the firewall, right wing, right aileron, and the rear fuselage undercarriage. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions with the airframe or engine.
Factual narrative
The pilot was landing at his destination following a cross-country personal flight. He encountered a strong crosswind gust during the landing, and involuntarily exited the runway. The airplane collided with a runway sign, and sustained substantial damage to the firewall, right wing, right aileron, and the rear fuselage undercarriage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the airframe or engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N515CW
- Reported as
- Chris W Kleen RV-6
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 22716
- Airframe hours
- 1,091
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Chris Kleen
- Registered owner
- Chris Kleen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · October 4, 2009 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- GPI · Kalispell, MT
- Destination
- Coeur D'Alene, ID
- Airport
- COE · Coeur D'Alene, runway 19, 5,400 × 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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 20, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 1,015 in this make and model · 1,500 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KCOE
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 29, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.3 MB 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.
Other investigations on N515CW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.