- Date
- April 30, 2024, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hemet, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N92NPRans S7
- 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
- 20240430006379A
- Case key
- 194218
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 landing 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 reported that while he started to flare for landing, the airplane encountered a gust of wind from the left, which he counteracted by lowering the left wing. Shortly after, the left main landing gear contacted the runway, and the airplane abruptly veered to the left. Subsequently, the airplane exited the runway, and the right main landing gear collapsed, which resulted in in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preexisting mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 22, with wind from 150° at 8 knots, gusting to 12 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92NP
- Reported as
- Rans S7 (S)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 0911564
- Built
- 2023
- Airframe hours
- 76
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special); Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 13, 2023 · 76 hours before
- Departed
- F70 · Temecula, CA
- Destination
- HMT · Hemet, CA
- Airport
- HMT · Hemet-Ryan, runway 04/22, 2,014 × 25 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction 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
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 16, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 2,553 total · 89 in this make and model · 2,553 as pilot in command · 18.7 in the last 90 days · 7.6 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 8 knots, gusting 12
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KRIV, 15 nm away
- METAR
- KRIV 301955Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW200 25/10 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP099 T02540100
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 19, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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.