- Date
- September 25, 2020, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Rogers, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N920XPiper PA46R-350T
- Defining event
- Maneuvering: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20200925009639A
- Case key
- 102071
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadvertent loss of aircraft control, resulting in substantial damage to the airframe during the spin recovery.
Findings · 1
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 practicing slow flight and approach-to-stall maneuvers at 5,500 ft msl with the landing gear and flaps fully extended, the stall warning horn sounded, and the airplane began buffeting. The pilot advanced the throttle and lowered the nose of the airplane to recover from the maneuver, when the right wing dropped, the airplane rolled over inverted, and subsequently entered a right spiral dive. The pilot reported that after 5 to 7 turns he regained control of the airplane leveling at 500 to 700 ft agl. The pilot returned to the airport and landed without further incident. Postaccident examination revealed the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage above the left wing’s trailing edge, below and forward of the empennage, above the right horizontal stabilizer, and at the tail cone below the right and left horizontal stabilizers. The pilot reported there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N920X
- Reported as
- Piper PA46R-350T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4692206
- Built
- 2014
- Airframe hours
- 815.9
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A, 350 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Coadmere INC
- Registered owner
- Coadmere INC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 30, 2020 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- ROG · Rogers, AR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ROG · Rogers Executive Airport - Carter Field
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 868 total · 855 in this make and model · 710 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 60 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TOG, 10 nm away
Docket · 9
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 43.6 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.