- Date
- February 20, 2011, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Holdenville, OK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8310LPiper PA-32R-301
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 20, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20110220001989A
- Case key
- 78391
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 decision to land with a tailwind and his delay in executing a go around.
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
According to a Federal Aviation Administration inspector the pilot said he inadvertently landed with a tailwind. Realizing his mistake and unable to stop the airplane on the runway remaining, he attempted to takeoff; however, the airplane collided with shrubs at the end of the runway, shearing off both wings. The pilot said that his attempted go-around was unsuccessful because the airplane had a nearly full fuel load.
Factual narrative
According to an FAA inspector who interviewed the pilot via telephone, the pilot said he inadvertently landed on runway 35 with a tailwind. Realizing his mistake and unable to stop the airplane on the runway remaining, he attempted to take off. However, the airplane collided with shrubs at the end of the runway, shearing off both wings. According to the pilot's accident report, he landed on runway 35 because "all the winds have been out of the north this winter...I suppose I saw what I had expected to see." His attempted go-around was unsuccessful because the airplane had a nearly full fuel load. The pilot summarized, "I must have thought this [landing] was going to be like all the others and didn't double check everything as I usually do. Complacency has no place in the cockpit and the penalty of seeing your pride and joy damaged is indeed severe. If we all could just imagine an outcome such as mine before every flight, awareness of every detail would be increased."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8310L
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-8113024
- Airframe hours
- 4,218
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- 3D Well Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- 3D Well Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 3, 2010 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- BKN · Blackwell, OK
- Destination
- F99 · Holdenville, OK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- F99 · Holdenville Municipal, runway 35, 3,251 × 100 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
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 3, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 105 in this make and model · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 14 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.71 inHg
- Observed at
- SRE
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 15, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 531 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.
Other investigations on N8310L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.