- Date
- May 30, 2024, 11:03 local (17:03 UTC)
- Place
- Pinedale, WY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N58QTOklahoma Fat Tire Flyers 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20240530008299A
- Case key
- 194394
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 the landing roll, which resulted in aground 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 upon landing, the aircraft “immediately darted to the left” and ground looped. The right main landing gear collapsed, and the right wing and elevator impacted the ground, resulting in substantial damage to both. The pilot indicated that he may have inadvertently applied pressure to the left toe brake during touchdown. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N58QT
- Reported as
- Oklahoma Fat Tire Flyers CCX-2000
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CCX-2000-0115
- Built
- 2021
- Airframe hours
- 209.4
- Engine
- Lycoming CC363i, 186 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Point2point LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 5, 2023
- Departed
- LAR · Laramie, WY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PNA · Ralph Wenz Field Airport, runway Runway 29, 8,900 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Data recorder, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B
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
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 6, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- None
- Flight hours
- 1,015 total · 36 in this make and model · 831 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 245° at 6 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- KPNA
- METAR
- KPNA 301655Z AUTO 23003KT 10SM BKN055 10/M05 A3021 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 25, 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.