- Date
- April 28, 2021, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Friendly, MD · On airport
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N32592Piper PA-28-180
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing area undershoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210428005419A
- Case key
- 103040
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 failure to attain a proper touchdown point on landing, which resulted in a collision with the runway lip.
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 stated that he had a higher-than-normal sink rate on final approach. The airplane landed short, and the left main landing gear struck the lip of the runway. The airplane bounced, then settled back on the runway, and the left wing dropped. The airplane veered off the runway into the grass and the left landing gear fully collapsed, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot said that he was carrying two passengers and did not consider the extra weight in the airplane, and that he should have added power sooner to arrest the sink rate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32592
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7505075
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 5,657.2
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- 5Niner2Aviation
- Registered owner
- 5Niner2Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 8, 2020
- Departed
- EXF · Fredricksburg, VA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- VKX · Potomac Airfield, runway 06/24, 2,665 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, 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
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 15, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 458 total · 35 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.84 inHg
- Observed at
- KADW, 6 nm away
- METAR
- KADW 281956Z AUTO 24007KT 10SM FEW200 29/12 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP109 T02940123 FZRANO
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 24, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.4 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.