NYC07LA241 · Everson Sidewinder
Everson Sidewinder · Accident: overrun during landing
From Slidell Airport (ASD) to 83J · Pensacola, FL
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC07LA241
- 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
Everson Sidewinder
- Aircraft type
- Everson SIDEWINDER
- 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
- N62RE
- Operator
- Michael A. Pearson · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Slidell Airport (ASD), Slidell, LATo 83J · Pensacola, FL
- 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
- 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
- Overrun
- 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 › Distance/speed, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Several witnesses described the amateur-built airplane's high-speed, low-altitude overflight and entry into the airport traffic pattern and its flight through the final approach course while on the base leg of the pattern. The approach required "S" turns to realign the airplane with the runway. The landing was "very fast," "very long," and touchdown was over two-thirds the distance down the runway. The airplane then overran the 2,526-foot-long turf runway, collided with a fence, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The witnesses also described the pilot's postcrash position in the airplane as "inverted," "crumpled," his complexion was "blue," and that cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered at the scene. The pilot reported that the airplane experienced no mechanical malfunctions or failures, but suggested that the proximity of the engine exhaust outlet to the cabin vent resulted in carbon monoxide impairment. However, examination of his medical records revealed no direct treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning, and a search of the National Transportation Safety Board accident database revealed no record of carbon monoxide impairment in connection with any accident that involved the airplane make and model.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point while landing.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC07LA241
- Event ID
- 20071105X01730
- Case number
- NYC07LA241
- 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. 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: 92080d3e1827b0894a4d7051778dce45fca3bbafa6b083928fb2802fb6b584a3; retrieved 2026-09-21T08:43:37.641Z.