- Date
- October 28, 2022, 12:00, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Columbia, SC
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5153PPiper PA-24-250
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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
- 20221028016909A
- Case key
- 106266
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the crosswind landing.
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
At the conclusion of the return flight, the pilot was landing at his home airport where a significant right crosswind prevailed for the landing runway. The pilot described that, during the final approach for landing, he maintained a right-wing-down attitude and was crabbing the airplane into the wind. As the airplane neared touchdown, the pilot applied left rudder to straighten the airplane’s path; when the right main wheel touched down, the airplane “weather vaned” to the right and into the wind. The airplane’s nose wheel touched down, and the airplane “swerved hard to the left.” His subsequent attempts to correct the airplane’s path were unsuccessful. The airplane departed the left side of the runway, continued down an embankment, struck a berm, and came to rest, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5153P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-169
- Built
- 1958
- Airframe hours
- 3,818.67
- Engine
- Lycoming O540-A1A5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cjl Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Cjl Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 18, 2022
- Departed
- CDN · Camden, SC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- CUB · Jim Hamilton L B Owens, runway 31, 5,011 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, 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
- 63
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- August 10, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 325 total · 138.8 in this make and model · 233.6 as pilot in command · 8.6 in the last 90 days · 2.6 in the last 30 days · 0.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.32 inHg
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- CUB
- METAR
- KCUB 281453Z AUTO 10SM CLR 18/09 A3032 RMK AO2 SLP265 T01780094 51015
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 23, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.5 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.