- Date
- October 20, 1999, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gallup, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N56268Fairchild M62A (PT-19)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 23, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19991020036929A
- Case key
- 47601
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Failure by the pilot in command to maintain control of the aircraft during landing roll. Factors were a lack of experience of either pilot in kind and type of aircraft.
Analysis
During landing roll, the aircraft started to swerve and both pilots made control inputs simultaneously. The result was over correction and the aircraft departed the side of the runway and struck a runway light, which caused the main landing gear to collapse. Neither pilot was experienced in the aircraft type or make and model.
Factual narrative
On October 20, 1999, at 1230 mountain daylight time, a Fairchild M62A (PT-19), N56268, sustained substantial damage when it departed the side of the runway during landing roll at Gallup, New Mexico. The private and commercial/flight instructor pilots on board were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this ferry flight operating under title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The flight departed Prescott, Arizona, at 1000 mountain standard time.
According to the pilot, the aircraft began swerving during landing roll and departed the side of the runway which damaged the main landing gear, the left wing tip, and the underside of the aircraft when it struck a runway light.
The pilot in command was occupying the front seat and the other pilot, who was conducting the landing, was in the rear seat. The pilot in command said, when the aircraft started to swerve, he got on the controls with the other pilot which resulted in an "over correction" to the swerve. Control was lost and after several swerves, the aircraft departed the side of the runway, and struck a landing light which caused the main landing gear to collapse.
Neither pilot was experienced in type or kind of aircraft.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56268
- Reported as
- Fairchild M62A (PT-19) (M62A (PT-1)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T43-5242
- Airframe hours
- 338
- Engine
- Ranger 6-440-C5, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John B. Northrup
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 6, 1999 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- Destination
- GUP
- Airport
- GUP · Gallup Municipal, runway 24, 7,312 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 185 total · 14 in this make and model · 74 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 15 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GUP, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.