- Date
- December 26, 2023, 11:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Ponca City, OK · runway
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N510PPiper PA-34-200T
- 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
- 20231226019409A
- Case key
- 193571
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 directional control during landing in gusty crosswind conditions.
Findings · 4
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 he completed the before landing checklist while on the downwind leg of the airport traffic pattern. The approach and landing were completed at a reduced flap setting due to the gusty wind. After the airplane touched down, the pilot “felt a pull to the left,” and he thought that there might have been an issue with the nose wheel steering. The airplane ultimately departed the left side of the runway, and the left main landing gear collapsed. The left wing was damaged during the accident sequence. A postaccident examination conducted by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector did not reveal any anomalies with respect to the nose wheel assembly or the steering linkage. Rudder control continuity was confirmed. Surface weather observations indicated that a 50° - 70° right crosswind with gusts to 30 knots prevailed about the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N510P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7970268
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 5,420
- Engines
- Continental TSIO-360EB, 200 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental LTSIO-360EB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 18, 2023 · 165 hours before
- Departed
- OUN · Norman, OK
- Destination
- PNC · Ponca City, OK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PNC · Ponca City Regional, runway 17, 7,201 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 11, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 340 total · 137 in this make and model · 282 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 14 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Observed at
- KPNC
- METAR
- KPNC 261753Z AUTO 24014G26KT 10SM SCT047 BKN060 BKN120 06/M04 A2981 RMK AO2 PK WND 22030/1721 SLP097 T00611039 10061 20000 58013
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 8, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 25.1 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.