- Date
- August 19, 2022, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stanley, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N25MFFall Martin Super CUB
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control in flight
- 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
- 20220819014769A
- Case key
- 105840
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during takeoff 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 tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, the windsock indicated a left crosswind for runway 17. As the airplane lifted off, it experienced a “sudden and extreme right drift”. The pilot attempted corrective action however the drift was uncontrollable, so he turned to the right to avoid a collision with other parked aircraft. The pilot continued the takeoff, however the airplane settled and subsequently collided with terrain. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and longerons. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25MF
- Reported as
- Fall Martin Super CUB
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 5
- Built
- 2004
- Airframe hours
- 255
- Engine
- Smith/Martin Fall Martin Fall Cub, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bud Sommerville
- Registered owner
- WILHITE LUCAS J/ Bud Sommerville
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 19, 2022
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 2U7 · Stanley Airport, runway 17, 4,300 × 150 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 11, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 3,940 total · 32 in this make and model · 1,108 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Observed at
- N/A
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 9, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 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.
Other investigations on N25MF · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.