Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to properly check that the flight controls were correctly configured before takeoff.
NTSB Accidents
Student crashes on takeoff
Probable cause: The pilot-receiving-instruction’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
Talking on the radio leads to gear-up landing
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear due to his distraction by talking on the radio, which resulted in a gear-up landing.
Helicopter rolls over after landing on snow
Probable cause: The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, which resulted in a dynamic rollover.
Not enough training results in ground loop
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll resulting in a ground loop.
Skiplane breaks through ice
Probable cause: The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, which led to both skis breaking through the ice while positioning the airplane after landing.
Plane lands gear up in flight preparing for check ride
Probable cause: The failure of pilot to extend the landing gear during landing.
Pilot loses control after landing on wet runway
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll on a wet surface.
Pilot looking at iPad hits another plane on the taxiway
Probable cause: The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to see and avoid an airplane holding short of the runway on the taxiway and the flight instructor’s lack of situational awareness.