- Date
- May 22, 2022, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Marion, TX · runway
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N422DEBoeing A75N1
- 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 Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20220522008009A
- Case key
- 105137
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 loss of control during 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 flight instructor and pilot were conducting a currency flight with the pilot at the flight controls of the tailwheel equipped airplane. The takeoff, flight around the traffic pattern, and landing approach were normal. The pilot executed a wheel landing; however, the airplane encountered a “rough spot on the turf runway” and bounced. When the airplane touched down again, it entered a ground loop which resulted in a runway excursion. During the accident sequence, the left wing contacted the ground resulting in substantial damage to the wing spar and aileron. The flight instructor and pilot reported that there were no airplane anomalies before the ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N422DE
- Reported as
- Boeing A75N1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-3113
- Built
- 1942
- Airframe hours
- 4,159.3
- Engine
- Continental Motors W670-6N, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cibolo Creek Aviation LLC, doing business as N/A
- Registered owner
- Cibolo Creek Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2021 · 12.6 hours before
- Departed
- 1TE4 · Marion, TX
- Destination
- 1TE4 · Marion, TX
- Airport
- 1TE4 · Zuehl, runway 35, 2,963 × 200 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 10, 2021
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,135 total · 216 in this make and model · 3,004 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 13, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 250 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KSAT, 17 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KSAT 222251Z VRB04KT 10SM FEW080 FEW250 29/17 A3004
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 29, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.3 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.