- Date
- November 4, 2021, 14:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Challis, ID · PVT runway
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N727SSCubcrafters CC11-160
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: 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
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211104018919A
- Case key
- 104222
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of directional control after the airplane encountered a gust of wind during the landing roll.
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 tail wheel equipped airplane reported that, he overflew the runway to check the windsock. Having established the wind was out of the southwest, he entered the traffic pattern, and confirmed the wind condition again during the downwind leg. The landing approach and touchdown were uneventful, until the airplane encountered a gust of wind that caused a change in heading. The airplane flew toward a fence, and the pilot applied engine power to correct the drift, but the airplane struck the fence and nosed over. The wings and vertical stabilizer were substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N727SS
- Reported as
- Cubcrafters CC11-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC11-00200
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 893
- Engine
- ECI/Titan CC340, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Primera Investments Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 2021 · 79.9 hours before
- Departed
- LLJ · Challis, ID
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PVT · Castle Creek Hideout, runway 7, 1,800 × 75 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- None
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 81
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- March 17, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 13,000 total · 893 in this make and model · 80 in the last 90 days · 68 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Observed at
- KLLJ, 20 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLLJ 041955Z AUTO 34003KT 10SM OVC080 10/03 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP111 T01000028=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 4, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.0 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.