- Date
- September 2, 2021, 16:08 local (21:08 UTC)
- Place
- Cotton Port, LA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N303TACostruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P92 Echo Classic
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- 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
- FAA report
- 20210902022939A
- Case key
- 103802
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Probable cause
The pilot exceeding the airplane’s critical angle of attack, resulting in an aerodynamic stall and subsequent loss of control during go-around after a bounced landing.
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 while landing the light-sport airplane on his private airstrip the airplane bounced hard. The pilot reported that he executed a go-around, and the airplane entered a steep climb, and experienced an aerodynamic stall. After the stall, the left wing struck a powerline, and the airplane impacted a soybean field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the forward fuselage and both wings. The pilot reported no mechanical issues with the airplane prior to the accident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N303TA
- Reported as
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P92 Echo Classic
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1328
- Built
- 2010
- Airframe hours
- 313
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 7, 2021
- Airport
- pvt · Private Airstrip, runway 27, 2,500 × 70 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot
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
- 74
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 283 total · 283 in this make and model · 194 as pilot in command · 1.3 in the last 90 days · 1.3 in the last 30 days · 1.3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- KOPL, 26 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KOPL 022055Z AUTO 33009KT 10SM SCT042 BKN070 OVC095 31/23 A2988 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SW THRU NE T03070233=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 6, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 62.6 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.