- Date
- May 2, 2025, 19:00 local (May 3, 2025, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Owyhee, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N40JLJeremy S Lezin Just Superstol
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 9, 2025
- 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
- 20250502006059A
- Case key
- 200418
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 landing.
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
According to the pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane, he noticed that the engine oil temperature increased 25° higher than normal, while flying about 4,500 ft msl. He decided to land, let the engine cool, and check the engine oil level. During the landing roll on a dirt strip, the airplane veered left, the left main landing gear struck a bush, and the right wingtip impacted the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing and aileron. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40JL
- Reported as
- Jeremy S Lezin Just Superstol
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- JA318-09-13
- Built
- 2014
- Airframe hours
- 347
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special); Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 2025
- Departed
- 50S · Parma, ID
- Airport
- 28U · Owyhee Reservoir State
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld 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
- 41
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 3, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 113 total · 35 in this make and model · 42 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 18 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Observed at
- KEUL, 34 nm away
- METAR
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 9, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.4 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.