- Date
- September 23, 2021, 16:22 local (22:22 UTC)
- Place
- Hooper, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N696CPKitfox S7
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- 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
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20210923016329A
- Case key
- 103986
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 excessive brake pressure which resulted in the airplane nosing over and coming to rest inverted.
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 pilot in the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, he made a normal approach and landed a little fast about 1/3 of the way down the grass airstrip. As he reached the last 1/3 of the airstrip, he got nervous and applied the brakes hard. The airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted substantially damaging the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N696CP
- Reported as
- Kitfox S7
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- KA19108403
- Built
- 2021
- Airframe hours
- 41.6
- Engine
- Rotax 912STI, 155 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 17, 2021 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- ORD · Ogden, UT
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- N/A · Private
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 285 total · 42 in this make and model · 235 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KOGD, 6 nm away
- METAR
- KOGD 232153Z 29009KT 10SM CLR 26/02 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP152 T02560017
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 24, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 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.