- Date
- July 10, 2022, 18:05 local (23:05 UTC)
- Place
- Wyoming, IL · 4929 IL-91 Wyoming, IL 61491
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N205SKAir Tractor AT-502B
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Collision during takeoff/land
- 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
- 20220710008409A
- Case key
- 105442
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing.
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, upon landing, the airplane bounced and he elected to go around. He added power and heard the engine spool up. The airplane became airborne again, but at the top of the bounce, the pilot felt the right wing rapidly dip and he applied left aileron to correct it. The right-wing started to rise, but before it leveled off, he heard it contact the corn. The airplane spun to the right and landed in the corn field, resulting in substantial damage to aft fuselage and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N205SK
- Reported as
- Air Tractor AT-502B (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 502B-0628
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 8,676.3
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34AG, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 10, 2022
- Departed
- N/A · Wyoming, IL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- N/A · Unnamed Farm Strip, runway N/A, 1,800 × 80 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Heads up display, 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
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Military, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 4, 2021
- Seat
- Single
- Flight hours
- 3,695 total · 15 in this make and model · 2,546 as pilot in command · 99 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days · 14 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 80 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- KC75, 18 nm away
- METAR
- KC75 102321Z AUTO 19004KT 10SM CLR 26/21 A2996 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 24, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 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.
Other investigations on N205SK · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.