- Date
- September 21, 2024, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yellow Pine, ID · U60 Big Creek Airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N448MTConner Michael A Vans Acft RV-9
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 20240921015899A
- Case key
- 195190
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in an impact with a fence.
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 tail wheel equipped airplane reported that he was landing on a grass field. At 10 feet above the runway, he reduced power. The airplane landed hard on the runway and bounced. The pilot added power and the airplane veered left. The pilot applied the brakes, but the airplane continued off the left side of the runway. The airplane then impacted a fence, which resulted insubstantial damage to the left wing, right horizontal and the vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N448MT
- Reported as
- Conner Michael A Vans Acft RV-9
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 92248
- Built
- 2020
- Airframe hours
- 65
- Engine
- Lycoming YO-320 SERIES, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · December 3, 2023 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- KHRV · Hamilton, MT
- Destination
- U60 · Big Creek, ID
- Airport
- U60 · Big Creek Airport, runway 19, 3,550 × 110 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Foreign, Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- September 11, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 33,000 total · 65 in this make and model · 30,000 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KMYL, 47 nm away
- METAR
- KMYL 211351Z AUTO 04007KT 10SM CLR 06/M01 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP195 T00611006
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 17.5 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.