- Date
- November 23, 2021, 18:40 UTC
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N81991Piper PA-32-301
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- 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 Orlando FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211123020559A
- Case key
- 104319
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 inadequate compensation for winds during the landing roll.
Findings · 3
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 explained that he was landing with a gusting 70° left crosswind and felt the windspeed and gust spread were within his capabilities. During rollout, the wind pushed the tail to the airplane’s right, the nose to the left, and the pilot was “hesitant to give the airplane more right rudder” to maintain directional control before it departed the left side of the runway. Following the runway excursion, the nose landing gear dug into the turf surface, bent the nose gear aft, and bent the engine mount, which substantially damaged the airplane. The pilot reported there were no mechanical deficiencies with the airplane that would have prevented normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81991
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-8006044
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 2,015
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 5, 2021 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- SUA · Stuart, FL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SFB · Sanford, runway 9R, 5,839 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 263.3 total · 117.3 in this make and model · 24.1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 16 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KSFB, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KSFB 231753Z 02016G23KT 10SM FEW041 18/06 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP192 T01780061 10183 20117 58009
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 6, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.3 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.