- Date
- April 5, 2022, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Indiana, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N371MHenderson Clifford S Super Bear CSH-1
- 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/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220405004989A
- Case key
- 105010
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 loss of directional control while landing, which resulted in a ground loop.
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 was landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane in light crosswind conditions. He reported that after a three-point landing the airplane began to ground loop to the right. He applied left rudder to correct; however, the airplane ground looped to the right and exited the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and empennage. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N371M
- Reported as
- Henderson Clifford S Super Bear CSH-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Built
- 1993
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · March 15, 2022
- Departed
- 22N · Lehighton, PA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- IDI · Indiana County Airport, runway 11, 5,502 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 30, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 271 total · 5 in this make and model · 121 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- IDI
- METAR
- KIDI 051515Z AUTO VRB06G12KT 10SM CLR 14/03 A2994 RMK A01
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 31, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 12.0 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.