- Date
- July 7, 2021, 07:22 local (12:22 UTC)
- Place
- Pryor, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8277SEslinger C W/Eslinger S M Cassutt
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- 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
- Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20210707012729A
- Case key
- 103445
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Probable cause
The pilot’s high flare and failure to execute a go-around which resulted in a hard landing and runway excursion.
Findings · 3
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 landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane, he flared high, and the airplane landed hard. The airplane subsequently veered off the right side of the runway, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot reported he should have added power and performed a go around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8277S
- Reported as
- Eslinger C W/Eslinger S M Cassutt
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 02
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 369
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eslinger Carl W
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 4, 2021 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- H71 · Pryor, OK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- H71 · Mid-America Industrial, runway 18/36, 4,992 × 72 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 73
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 15, 2019
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 2,164 total · 370 in this make and model · 2,118 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KGCM, 8 nm away
- METAR
- KGCM 071215Z AUTO 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 21/20 A2998 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 16, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 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.