- Date
- May 9, 2021, 14:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Sacramento, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N104GXRemos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau Remos GX
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- FAA report
- 20210509008259A
- Case key
- 103054
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 failure to maintain directional control during landing in gusty wind conditions which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with terrain.
Findings · 3
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 student pilot reported that, he configured the airplane for landing on runway 22R and touched down on the runway centerline. Upon landing, the airplane encountered a wind gust and became airborne. The airplane drifted off the runway area and the wings oscillated with the tips making contact with the surface. As a result of the impact, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the upper fuselage skin located between the wing roots. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. An aviation routine weather report (METAR) for the airport about 25 minutes after the accident reported winds from 310o at 10 knots with gusts to 17 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N104GX
- Reported as
- Remos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau Remos GX
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 288
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 800
- Engine
- Rotax 912, 80 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MHR · Sacramento Mather, runway 04L/22R, 6,081 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Angle of attack indicator, Airframe parachute
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
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 45 total · 44 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.84 inHg
- Observed at
- KMHR, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KMHR 092145Z 31010G17KT 10SM SKC 29/01 A2984 RMK AIRCRAFT INCIDENT
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 20, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 614 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.