- Date
- September 29, 2022, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Willard, UT · mud flats west of Willard, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N177CBArter Warren Carbon CUB CCK-1865
- 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
- 20220929016679A
- Case key
- 106047
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 NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
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.
Analysis
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, he was performing practice landings on a dry lakebed. After the second landing, he felt the right rear of the tail lift and move left. The airplane continued to decelerate, and the pilot attempted corrective control inputs, but the left wing stuck the ground and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and both wings. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N177CB
- Reported as
- Arter Warren Carbon CUB CCK-1865
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CCK1865-0020
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 427.6
- Engine
- Titan O-340, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Park City Backcountry Aviation II, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 1, 2022
- Departed
- KBTF · Salt Lake City, UT
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight 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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- October 9, 2020
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 37 in this make and model · 1,750 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KOGD, 16 nm away
- METAR
- KOGD 291553Z 17008KT 10SM CLR 20/11 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP158 T02000106
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 30, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.9 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.