- Date
- May 21, 2009, 14:20 local (18:20 UTC)
- Place
- Stevensville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N524LMTecnam P2002
- Defining event
- Landing: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20090521008819A
- Case key
- 73881
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed on final approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
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 pilot practiced maneuvers for approximately 50 minutes and discovered upon returning to the airport that there was a 60-degree crosswind for the 2,900-foot-long by 60-foot-wide runway. He aborted landing twice, and on the third attempt the airplane stalled and the left wing impacted terrain, substantially damaging the airplane. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions with the airplane. The recorded wind, about the time of the accident, was 170 degrees at 10 knots gusting to 15 knots. When the pilot departed the airport 1 hour and 15 minutes earlier, winds were from the south at 4 knots.
Factual narrative
The pilot practiced maneuvers for approximately 50 minutes, and discovered upon returning to the airport that there was a 60-degree crosswind for the 2,900-foot-long by 60-foot-wide runway. He aborted landing twice, and on the third attempt, the airplane stalled, and the left wing impacted terrain substantially damaging the airplane. The pilot reported there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions. The recorded wind, about the time of the accident, was 170 degrees at 10 knots gusting to 15 knots. When the pilot departed the airport 1 hour and 15 minutes earlier, winds were from the south at 4 knots. The pilot reported 154 hours of total flight experience, of which 39 hours were in the accident airplane make and model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N524LM
- Reported as
- Tecnam P2002 (JF)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 258
- Airframe hours
- 462
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Chesapeake Sport Pilot, LLC, doing business as Flight School
- Registered owner
- CSP Leasing LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 26, 2009
- Departed
- W29 · Stevensville, MD
- Destination
- W29 · Stevensville, MD
- Airport
- W29 · Bay Bridge Airport, runway 11, 2,903 × 60 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
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Student
- Last flight review
- June 8, 2008
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 154 total · 39 in this make and model · 97 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.30 inHg
- Observed at
- W29
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 23, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.0 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.