Accident Howard DGA-15P N9471H,
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Date:Monday 24 June 2002
Time:13:10 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic DG15 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Howard DGA-15P
Owner/operator:Private
Registration: N9471H
MSN: 813
Year of manufacture:1943
Total airframe hrs:1931 hours
Engine model:Pratt & Whitney R-985
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Category:Accident
Location:Deming, New Mexico -   United States of America
Phase: Unknown
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Fort Stockton-Pecos County Airport, TX (FST/KFST)
Destination airport:Deming Airport, NM (DMN/KDMN)
Investigating agency: NTSB
Confidence Rating: Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Narrative:
The pilot said that during landing roll on runway 26 he encountered a dust devil. He said that the airplane abruptly entered an uncommanded right turn and exited the runway. The airplane impacted a large mesquite bush separating the right landing gear and breaking the right wing spars near the wing's tip.

Probable Cause: The loss of aircraft directional control during the landing roll as a result of encountering a dust devil.

Accident investigation:
cover
  
Investigating agency: NTSB
Report number: DEN02LA059
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 9 months
Download report: Final report

Sources:

NTSB DEN02LA059

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
30 September 2018 N9471H Private 0 Kern Valley Airport (L05), Kernville, CA w/o
Fuel starvation

Revision history:

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