- Date
- March 11, 2022, 13:40 local (21:40 UTC)
- Place
- The Dalles, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N97WGRaviraj Mohil CCX-2000
- 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
- 20220311003149A
- Case key
- 104778
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop.
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing roll, as the tailwheel touched down, airplane veered to the right and ground looped. The left wing and aileron 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
- N97WG
- Reported as
- Raviraj Mohil CCX-2000
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CCX-2000-0134
- Built
- 2021
- Airframe hours
- 25
- Engine
- Lycoming 363-I, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- KHRI · Hermiston, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KDLS · Columbia Gorge Regional, runway 31, 5,097 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, 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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 4, 2021
- Seat
- Center
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 440 total · 26.1 in the last 90 days · 13.2 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.24 inHg
- Observed at
- KDLS
- METAR
- KDLS 112153Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 15/M02 A3024 RMK AO2 SLP239 T01501022
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 22, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.1 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.