- Date
- September 23, 2024, 13:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grand View, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N30YCCub Crafters CC11
- Defining event
- Taxi: 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
- 20240923015169A
- Case key
- 195188
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 loss of control after encountering a dust devil during taxi.
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 a tailwheel equipped airplane reported that while taxiing after an uneventful landing, he encountered a dust devil, and the tail of the airplane began to lift. The pilot attempted to turn the airplane around to point it into the wind when the tail lifted further, and the airplane nosed over, resulting in substantial damage to the rudder and lift struts. The pilot reported there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30YC
- Reported as
- Cub Crafters CC11 (160)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CC11-00442
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 50
- Engine
- Cont Motor OX-340CCB3J3N4, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · February 9, 2024
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, Satellite tracking device
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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- August 22, 2024
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 839 total · 139.1 in this make and model · 839 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 22.6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- KMUO, 39 nm away
- METAR
- KMUO 231955Z 31013KT 10SM FEW210 26/03 A3008 RMK AO2A SLP170 T02620034 $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.9 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.