- Date
- November 19, 2024, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Show Low, AZ · airport environment
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N705ABAviat A-1B
- Defining event
- Takeoff: 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
- Case key
- 195526
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 takeoff.
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, during takeoff, the airplane veered to the left and exited the runway. The airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the wings and vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was departing on runway 25 with a right quartering headwind at 7 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N705AB
- Reported as
- Aviat A-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2099
- Built
- 2000
- Airframe hours
- 656.6
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1P, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 2024
- Departed
- SOW · Show Low, AZ
- Destination
- FFZ · Mesa, AZ
- Airport
- SOW · Show Low Rgnl, runway 25, 7,202 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- October 28, 2024
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 883 total · 22 in this make and model · 662 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KSOW, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KSOW 191635Z AUTO 35007KT 10SM CLR 05/M06 A3014 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 22, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 MB in all.