- Date
- June 6, 2024, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Nenana, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2358APiper PA-20-135
- 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
- 20240606005649A
- Case key
- 194435
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot providing instruction’s delayed remedial action, resulting in a loss of control during landing roll.
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
During an instructional flight, the pilot providing instruction, seated on the right side, reported that, on landing roll while performing a touch-and-go, the pilot receiving instruction, seated on the left side, began to drift left. The pilot providing instruction attempted to correct with right rudder but was unable to overcome the drift. The airplane was equipped with brake pedals only on the left side, so the pilot providing instruction subsequently told the pilot receiving instruction to correct with right brake. However, the pilot receiving instruction did not apply adequate corrective measures, which resulted in a ground loop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. The pilot providing instruction reported no pre-impact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2358A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20-135
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-921
- Built
- 1952
- Airframe hours
- 2,906.7
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 28, 2024 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- PAAN · Goldking, AK
- Destination
- PANN · Nenana, AK
- Airport
- PANN · Nenana Municipal Airport, runway 22R, 4,800 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 31, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 10,600 total · 17 in this make and model · 6,700 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 32
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 22, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 190 total · 9 in this make and model · 132.9 as pilot in command · 29.3 in the last 90 days · 8.2 in the last 30 days · 1.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.77 inHg
- Observed at
- ENN
- METAR
- PAFA 061453Z 00000KT 10SM -RA BKN050 BKN070 10/07 A2977 RMK AO2 SLP085 P0002 60002 T01000067 51028
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 28, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 35.2 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.