- Date
- May 23, 2022, 13:33 local (17:33 UTC)
- Place
- St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL · On airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47BPCessna 340
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
- 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
- 20220523008679A
- Case key
- 105158
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 inability to stop the airplane on the available runway, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with an airport perimeter fence.
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 said that before he departed, he tested the airplane’s brakes and they functioned normally. He then departed, made one circuit in the traffic pattern, and landed about 500 to 1,000 ft beyond the first intersection located at the approach end of the 9,730-ft-long runway. The pilot said the brakes were not working during the landing roll-out and he was unable to stop or slow on the remaining runway. The pilot veered the airplane off the left side of the runway, traveled another 1,800 ft and impacted the airport’s perimeter fence resulting in substantial damage to the airplane’s fuselage. A postaccident examination of the airplane’s brakes revealed no evidence of any preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47BP
- Reported as
- Cessna 340
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340-0223
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 2,719
- Engines
- Continental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lakeside Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Lakeside Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 2022
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PIE · St Pete - Clearwater, runway 18, 9,730 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, 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
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 24, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,002 total · 460 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KCLW, 6 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCLW 231735Z AUTO 12006KT 080V160 10SM SCT041 SCT050 SCT065 32/19 A3009
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 27, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 22.6 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.