- Date
- June 6, 2001, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Akron, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2970PPiper PA-22-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 19, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20010606014759A
- Case key
- 52433
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to adequately compensate for wind conditions, resulting in a loss of directional control during landing roll. A contributing factor was the crosswind.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
After monitoring ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System), the pilot landed on runway 11. As the airplane slowed, the tail was lowered and the airplane turned into the wind. The airplane departed the left side of the runway and collided with a ditch. Recorded winds were from 030 degrees at 13 knots. The pilot later said she failed to adequately compensate for the left crosswind.
Factual narrative
On June 6, 2001, approximately 1500 mountain daylight time, a Piper PA-22-150 (converted to a PA-20-150 with conventional landing gear), N2970P, was substantially damaged when it collided with terrain during landing at Akron-Washington County Airport, Akron, Colorado. The private pilot in command and her private pilot certificated passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed for the personal flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated at Great Bend, Kansas, approximately 1315 central daylight time.
The pilot and her passenger departed Great Bend, Kansas, en route home to Prineville, Oregon, and were stopping at Akron for fuel. After monitoring the Akron ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System), she landed on runway 11. As the airplane slowed, the tail was lowered and the airplane turned left into the wind, departed the left side of the runway and collided with a ditch. Damage consisted of a broken right wing main spar, collapsed right main landing gear, bent propeller, and crushed cowling. Winds recorded at Akron approximately 7 minutes before the accident were from 030 degrees at 13 knots. In a telephone conversation with the pilot shortly after the accident, she said she failed to adequately compensate for the left crosswind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2970P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-3244
- Airframe hours
- 2,648
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Julie Wilson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 2000 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- GBD · Great Bend, KS
- Destination
- S39 · Prineville, OR
- Airport
- AKO · Akron-Washington Co, runway 11, 7,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- December 30, 2000
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 384 total · 112 in this make and model · 284 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- AKO
FAA reports on this event · 1
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