- Date
- August 27, 2022, 07:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Maricopa, AZ · 32.995048, -111.915817
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N628LELeon E Everett Carbon CUB EX
- 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
- FAA report
- 20220827015139A
- Case key
- 105820
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during landing with a crosswind and the use of excessive braking application, which resulted in a nose over.
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 reported that, he was landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane on a dirt runway with a left crosswind. During the landing roll, before the tailwheel was fully lowered, the left wing lifted. The pilot applied the brakes firmly, and the airplane nosed over. The left-wing lift strut and the 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
- N628LE
- Reported as
- Leon E Everett Carbon CUB EX
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CCK-1865-0062
- Built
- 2017
- Airframe hours
- 112.8
- Engine
- Eci Titan Eci cc340, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Quantum Leasing, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 27, 2021 · 4 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- A39 · Ak-Chin Rgnl, runway 22 dirt, 4,000 × 30 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Stall warning system
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
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- January 20, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,746 total · 8 in this make and model · 4,321 as pilot in command · 87 in the last 90 days · 32 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KCGZ, 8 nm away
- METAR
- KCGZ 271356Z AUTO 10006KT 10SM CLR 28/18 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP094 T02830183 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 9, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.4 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.