- Date
- February 22, 2021, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas City, MO
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N560CAPiper PA46R-350T
- Defining event
- Landing: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210222003909A
- Case key
- 102672
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 loss of directional control during landing for reasons that could not be determined.
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 during landing, the nose wheel began to steer the airplane to the right. He lost directional control of the airplane, and it exited the side of the runway. The right main landing gear collapsed, and the right wing was substantially damaged. Postaccident examination of the airplane did not reveal a reason for the loss of directional control.
Factual narrative
On February 22, 2021, about 1100 central standard time, a Piper PA46R-350T, N560CA, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident while landing at the Charles B Wheeler Downtown Airport, Kansas City, Missouri. The pilot and 4 passengers were not injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The pilot reported he made a normal approach and landing on runway 19 and during the landing roll, the nose wheel “pulled” uncontrollably to the right. The pilot lost control of the airplane and it departed the right side of the runway. The right main landing gear collapsed, and the right wing was substantially damaged. Examination of the airplane did not reveal a reason for the loss of nose wheel directional control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N560CA
- Reported as
- Piper PA46R-350T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4692113
- Built
- 2009
- Airframe hours
- 1,400
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Over The Top Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- August 20, 2020 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- DSM · Des Moines, IA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MKC · Charles B Wheeler Downtown, runway 19, 6,827 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 954.5 total · 29.1 in this make and model · 906.8 as pilot in command · 7.4 in the last 90 days · 3.2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KMKC
- METAR
- METAR KMKC 221654Z 24009KT 10SM CLR 08/M03 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP153 T00781033=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 29, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11.5 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.