- Date
- December 5, 2021, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hamilton, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N889WTMonte Clark Vans RV8
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211205020229A
- Case key
- 104351
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing with a crosswind.
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 of the tail wheel equipped airplane reported that, during the landing roll with a crosswind, the airplane began to swerve left and right as the tail wheel started to come down. The airplane the veered left off the runway onto the grass and collided with a ditch. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N889WT
- Reported as
- Monte Clark Vans RV8
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 83469
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 100
- Engine
- Superior IO 360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · October 1, 2021
- Departed
- 32S · Stevensville, MT
- Destination
- 6S5 · Hamilton, MT
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 6S5 · Ravallit, runway 35, 4,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot
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
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 15, 2020
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 630 total · 100 in this make and model · 630 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.19 inHg
- Observed at
- KHLN, 91 nm away
- METAR
- KHLN 051753Z 07006KT 10SM SCT060 M02/M08 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP265 T10171083 10017 21033 51030 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 8, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 12.6 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.