- Date
- September 24, 2021, 00:00 local (07:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bishop, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N701SASharp Ralph R Zenith Stol CH 701
- Defining event
- Unknown: Security/criminal event
- Weather
- Not reported
- 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
- 20210924016349A
- Case key
- 104262
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
A loss of airplane control for undetermined reasons.
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
Law enforcement personnel reported that the owner/pilot reported that his airplane had been stolen. The night before, the pilot landed and parked his airplane at the airport’s transient parking area. The following morning, he noticed that his airplane had been moved and subsequently found it near runway 8, at taxiway A. The airplane was positioned nose down with the nose gear collapsed and the left wing substantially damaged consistent with a loss of airplane control. Law enforcement investigation subsequently led to the arrest of the individual who was involved in the unauthorized movement of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N701SA
- Reported as
- Sharp Ralph R Zenith Stol CH 701
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7-6054
- Built
- 2010
- Airframe hours
- 150.7
- Engine
- Jabiru 2200A, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 3, 2020
- Airport
- BIH · Bishop, runway 08, 5,567 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Angle of attack indicator, Electronic multifunction display
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
- Other flight crew
- Medical
- Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
- Wind
- 350° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- KBIH
- METAR
- METAR KBIH 240656Z AUTO 35005KT 10SM CLR 19/M04 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP152 T01891039
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 7, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.6 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.
Other investigations on N701SA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.