LAX07CA138 · Tolsma Tony G Avid Magnum
Tolsma Tony G Avid Magnum · Accident: hard landing
From U35 · Caldwell, ID to Jackpot, NV
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX07CA138
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Tolsma Tony G Avid Magnum
- Aircraft type
- Tolsma Tony AVID MAGNUM
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N211RT
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From U35 · Caldwell, IDTo Jackpot, NV
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Hard landing
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Flare, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Recovery from bounced landing, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Weather evaluation, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The experimental conventional landing gear equipped airplane ground looped and nosed over following a hard landing. The pilot flew crosswind to check the wind direction, and he thought that the winds favored landing on runway 33. They were variable at 5 knots gusting to 10. On downwind, the windsock indicated that he would have a quartering tail wind. He decided to continue the landing on 33 because it was uphill, and he didn't think that the wind was too bad. But during the landing, the airplane stalled about 3 feet over the runway, impacted the runway hard, and bounced into the air. When the airplane touched down again, it veered left and ground looped. The right wing impacted a runway sign, and the airplane nosed over. When the pilot exited the airplane, he noticed that the winds were gusting more than he expected. He also reported that there were no malfunctions with the airplane prior to the accident.
Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate weather evaluation, inadequate compensation for the wind conditions, and decision to land with a gusty, quartering tailwind. Also causal was the pilot's misjudged landing flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing, resulting in a loss of directional control, collision with an object, and a nose over.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX07CA138
- Event ID
- 20070628X00828
- Case number
- LAX07CA138
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: bb546f7ce4d78ea58c8f44b117c77b72d5c539d86d71d8be6ff895a899b747d3; retrieved 2026-09-22T03:52:22.836Z.