- Date
- August 17, 2022, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Owasso, OK · Runway 35
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3572ZPiper PA28
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of lift
- 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 Will Rogers FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220817014699A
- Case key
- 106889
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the short field 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 student pilot was performing a short field landing with a designated pilot examiner in the right seat. The student pilot reported that his landing point was at the “top” of the runway numbers. After the airplane crossed over the perpendicular highway that is immediately to the south of the runway, it lost lift and the airplane impacted the edge of the runway. The main landing gear collapsed underneath both wings and the airplane came to rest upright on a grass field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings. The student pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airframe or the engine that would have precluded normal operation. The student pilot additionally reported that the accident could have been prevented by “proper inflight preparation of the approach” and “energy management.”
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3572Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA28 (161)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8016214
- Built
- 1979
- Engine
- Lycoming Engines 0-320 Series, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Viking Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- O38 · Gundys, runway 35R, 2,600 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 19
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 16, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 122 total · 61 in this make and model · 61 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KTUL, 6 nm away
- METAR
- KTUL 171853Z 33005KT 10SM BKN015 OVC025 25/21 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP168 T02500206
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.