- Date
- January 21, 2022, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Shelton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N139KFWight Albert A Kitfox Speedster
- 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
- 20220121000799A
- Case key
- 104550
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 the landing roll.
Findings · 2
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 reported that while landing his amateur built tailwheel equipped airplane, he experienced a ground loop to the left. Subsequently the right main wheel fell inside of a hole. The pilot stated the impact with the hole removed the right wheel causing structural damage to the right-side of the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N139KF
- Reported as
- Wight Albert A Kitfox Speedster
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- KCS139
- Built
- 1996
- Airframe hours
- 1,150
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kroy Richardson
- Registered owner
- Kroy Richardson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 2021
- Departed
- KSHN · Shelton, WA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- SHN · Sanderson Field, runway 23, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 3, 2021
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,132 total · 1 in this make and model · 3,012 as pilot in command · 663 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.62 inHg
- Observed at
- KSHN
- METAR
- SA 21/01/2022 20:53-> METAR KSHN 212053Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM OVC007 07/05 A3062 RMK AO2 SLP373 T00670050 58008=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 18, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.9 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.