- Date
- June 5, 2021, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Marietta, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N214RMJabiru USA Sport J250-SP
- 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
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210605020449A
- Case key
- 103235
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 maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 had just purchased the airplane and hired the flight instructor to give him some lessons before he flew home. He took off and performed several maneuvers before coming back to the airport to practice full stop landings. He said the final landing was smooth, but during the rollout, his left foot slipped off the rudder pedal while his right foot was still pressing on the right rudder pedal. The airplane swerved to the right, departed the runway, and came to rest in a wheat field. During the accident sequence, the right main and nose landing gear collapsed, and the lower fuselage and firewall were substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N214RM
- Reported as
- Jabiru USA Sport J250-SP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 249
- Built
- 2006
- Airframe hours
- 1,976
- Engine
- Jabiru 3300, 120 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 21, 2021 · 10 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- N71 · Donegal Springs Airpark, runway 28, 3,250 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 20, 2020
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,700 total · 40 in this make and model · 60 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 19, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 178 total · 3 in this make and model · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 11 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Icing
- Clear
- Observed at
- MDT, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KMDT 051656Z 31011G17KT 10SM FEW110 32/14 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP147 T03170139 $
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 1, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.