- Date
- June 22, 2020, 21:00 local (Jun 23, 2020, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- St Anthony, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N338RWChad Lewis Kitfox Super Sport
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20200623009109A
- Case key
- 101648
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion, contact with the airport perimeter fence, and subsequent nose over.
Findings · 2
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 tailwheel-equipped airplane veered to the right and exited the side of the runway into an alfalfa field during an attempted takeoff. The airplane subsequently went through the airport perimeter fence, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage and left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N338RW
- Reported as
- Chad Lewis Kitfox Super Sport
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- KA09119159
- Built
- 2013
- Airframe hours
- 309
- Engine
- Rotax 912 ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bushwhacked LLC
- Registered owner
- Bushwhacked LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · February 26, 2020 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- U12 · St Anthony, ID
- Destination
- U12 · St Anthony, ID
- Airport
- U12 · Stanford Field, runway 22, 4,500 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 2, 2018
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 5,233 total · 185 in this make and model · 31 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 130° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KRXE, 9 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 9, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 15.9 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.