- Date
- May 6, 2021, 12:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Willow, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7850DPiper PA-22-150
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210506008119A
- Case key
- 103056
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Probable cause
The pilots over application of the brakes while landing on a wet grass runway, which resulted in a loss of control and nose-over.
Findings · 3
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
The pilot reported that, while landing the tailwheel equipped airplane on a wet grass runway, he applied the brakes during the landing rollout and locked up the tires. Subsequently, the airplane slid off the crown of the runway onto dry ground and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, empennage, and right lift strut. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7850D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-5500
- Built
- 1957
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320 A3B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Brandon L. Dickey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Skwentna, AK
- Airport
- AK69 · Long Lake, runway 15, 1,800 × 40 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 22, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 220.4 total · 129.4 in this make and model · 201 as pilot in command · 23.1 in the last 90 days · 10.7 in the last 30 days · 2.1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.73 inHg
- Observed at
- PAWS, 18 nm away
- METAR
- PAWS 062056Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM CLR 11/M01 A2973 RMK AO2 SLP070 T01111006 58020
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 12, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.7 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.
Other investigations on N7850D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.