- Date
- October 13, 2024, 16:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Springer, NM · Private Ranch
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N46STJared Baker Rans DSG INC S21 OUT
- Defining event
- Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Collision during takeoff/land
- 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
- 20241013021309A
- Case key
- 195328
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 takeoff, which resulted in a collision with an obstacle.
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 of the tail wheel equipped airplane reported that, during takeoff in a left crosswind, as the tail came up the pilot applied right rudder, but the airplane veered left. After the airplane lifted off the runway the pilot banked left to avoid a windmill in his flight path; however, the tailwheel struck a stock tank. The pilot immediately cut the engine power and the airplane touched down in a left slip folding the left main landing gear under the airplane, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing and horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46ST
- Reported as
- Jared Baker Rans DSG INC S21 OUT
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 05220261
- Built
- 2023
- Airframe hours
- 241.3
- Engine
- Edge Performance 912 Sti, 155 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Condition · September 19, 2024 · 14.1 hours before
- Destination
- KH81 · Amarillo, TX
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, 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
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 27, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 370 total · 241 in this make and model · 325 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 52 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 11 knots, gusting 5
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KRTN, 36 nm away
- METAR
- KRTN 130953Z AUTO 34006KT 10SM CLR 10/M02 A3031 RMK AO2 SLP185 T01001022
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 8, 2025, 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.