- Date
- June 26, 2010, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Idabell, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N339CAviat A-1B
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 21, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20100626035289A
- Case key
- 76458
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's failure to maintain directional control during a go-around.
Findings · 2
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
While performing touch-and-go landings the pilot bounced a landing and started a go-around. The landing had turned the airplane 40 to 50 degrees to the left. As the pilot attempted the go-around the airplane continued left and the airplane stalled. The pilot stated that there was nothing wrong with the airplane prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
While performing touch and go landings the pilot bounced a landing and started a go around. The landing had turned the airplane 40 to 50 degrees to the left. As the pilot attempted the go around the airplane continued left and the airplane stalled. The pilot stated there was nothing wrong with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N339C
- Reported as
- Aviat A-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2044
- Airframe hours
- 624
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mccurtain County Abstract & Title Co LLC
- Registered owner
- Mccurtain County Abstract & Title Co LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 15, 2009
- Departed
- 404 · Idabell, OK
- Destination
- 404 · Idabell, OK
- Airport
- 404 · McCurtin County Regional Airpt, runway 20, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 5, 2009
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 400 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 27, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 589 KB 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.