- Date
- October 7, 2024, 18:15 local (Oct 8, 2024, 02:15 UTC)
- Place
- Kasilof, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9621DPiper PA-22-160
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20241007013669A
- Case key
- 195301
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 right main landing gear’s inadvertent contact with uneven terrain, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing was the pilot’s failure to adequately assess the landing environment prior to touchdown.
Findings · 4
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 performing an off-airport landing in a tailwheel-equipped airplane, the right main gear hit hard and immediately compressed, bending the crossover tube between the front main gear mounts, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9621D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-6532
- Built
- 1958
- Airframe hours
- 2,198.8
- Engine
- Lycoming O360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Limitless Outdoors
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · August 7, 2024 · 65.3 hours before
- Departed
- AK00 · Anchor Point, AK
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 13, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 586.5 total · 124 in this make and model · 504.9 as pilot in command · 77.8 in the last 90 days · 28.9 in the last 30 days · 1.6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.46 inHg
- Observed at
- PASX, 23 nm away
- METAR
- PASX 080156Z AUTO 04003KT 10SM CLR 10/02 A2946 RMK AO2 SLP983 T01000017 TSNO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 12, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 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.