- Date
- June 12, 2024, 09:35 local (14:35 UTC)
- Place
- Selma, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N62LPPiper PA-32R-300
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 20240612007599A
- Case key
- 194464
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 receiving instruction’s improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent landing gear collapse.
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 receiving instruction was in training to obtain both a complex and high-performance endorsement. After successfully completing a touch-and-go landing and continuing in the airport traffic pattern, the flight instructor reduced engine power to idle to simulate an emergency forced landing. The airplane touched down on the left main landing gear first and then hard on the right main landing gear. Subsequently, the right main landing gear collapsed, which resulted in the right wing contacting the runway and sustaining substantial damage. Both pilots reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62LP
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-7780375
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 9,408
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Magic City Aviators LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 22, 2023 · 206 hours before
- Departed
- EET · Calera, AL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- SEM · Craig Field Airport, runway 33, 8,014 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Onboard weather, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 22, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 100 total · 10 in this make and model · 34 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 27, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 27,228 total · 162 in this make and model · 24,141 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- SEM
- METAR
- KSEM 121935Z AUTO 36008KT 340V040 10SM CLR 31/18 A2993 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 18, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 60.7 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.