- Date
- November 7, 2021, 13:43 local (18:43 UTC)
- Place
- Frankenmuth, MI · 24 ft from left side of runway 27
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N754HCRaytheon G36
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- 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 - FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211107018999A
- Case key
- 104219
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 failure to maintain directional control while landing on a wet grass strip.
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 was performing a full stop landing at an airport. He landed the airplane on a grass strip and reported that the airplane “started sliding off the runway to the left.” The pilot was unable to regain control of the airplane and the airplane departed the side of the runway and came to rest in a field. The left main landing gear had collapsed, and substantial damage was sustained to the left wing. Inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration documented the accident scene and reported that marks in the grass strip were consistent with the airplane landing in a crab, with the nose of the airplane pointed towards the right side of the strip. Tracks made by the landing gear showed the airplane’s ground roll shifted towards the left and continued as the airplane departed the side of the runway. The pilot stated that the ground was soft and wet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N754HC
- Reported as
- Raytheon G36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-3768
- Airframe hours
- 2,135
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Private Individual
- Registered owner
- Om Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SCA · Sidney, OH
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- HYX · Saginaw County H W Browne, runway 27, 2,500 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 20, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 313 total · 55 in this make and model · 4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KHYX, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KHYX 071835Z AUTO 22010KT 10SM CLR 18/07 A3009 RMK AO2 T01760069=
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 18, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.