- Date
- October 29, 2010, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stockport, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N619CSCostruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2004 Bravo
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-COL-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20101029049739A
- Case key
- 77727
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent movement of the throttle control during landing, which resulted in an increase in power and excursion from the runway.
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
The pilot reported that he maintained a higher-than-normal approach speed due to the gusty wind conditions. Upon touchdown, the airplane bounced back airborne and the pilot's knee inadvertently moved the throttle control forward, increasing the engine power. Shortly after he realized that the airplane was accelerating between his applications of brakes. The airplane continued off the end of the airstrip and impacted a ditch, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported he maintained a higher than normal approach speed due to the gusty wind conditions. He applied flaps just prior to touching down, and the airplane bounced. The pilot reported that when the airplane bounced, he hit the throttle with his knee and did not realize it until he recognized that the airplane was accelerating between brake applications. The airplane continued off the end of the airstrip where it contacted a ditch resulting in substantial damage to the right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N619CS
- Reported as
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2004 Bravo
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 049
- Airframe hours
- 1,106
- Engine
- Rotax 912, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph F. Conte Jr.
- Registered owner
- N619cs LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 20, 2010 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- LHQ · Lancaster, OH
- Destination
- 80A7 · Stockport, OH
- Airport
- 80A7 · Bald Eagle Field, runway 04, 2,260 × 65 ft, grass/turf
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 640 total · 514 in this make and model · 640 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.31 inHg
- Observed at
- CMH, 66 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 24, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 346 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.