- Date
- March 21, 2025, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anderson, SC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8339YPiper PA-30
- 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/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250321003189A
- Case key
- 199894
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 pilots’ overcorrection during the landing roll which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway excursion. Contributing was the flight instructor’s inability to correct the pilot’s actions because due to brakes only being installed on the pilot’s side.
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 flight instructor and the commercial pilot, who was undergoing multiengine instruction, departed the airport traffic pattern and conducted flight maneuvers for about 30 minutes on their way to the destination airport where they planned to conduct some practice landings. During final approach, the instructor reported the pilot was maintaining a stabilized approach with a nominal descent rate and airspeed. Upon reaching the runway as they entered the flare and the airplane was in ground effect, the flight instructor stated, “power idle" and the pilot pulled the throttles back. The airplane touched down firmly on the centerline, then immediately began yawing to the left. The pilot attempted to correct, and the instructor told the pilot to stop “dancing” on the pedals, but the pilot overcorrected, and the airplane went in the opposing direction and off the right side of the runway through the grass and across a taxiway before coming to rest. During the impact, the landing gear collapsed, and the wings sustained substantial damage. The flight instructor stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation, further stating that she should have reacted sooner when she observed the beginning of the loss of control. However, the airplane was only equipped with brakes on the pilot’s (left) side, which limited the flight instructor’s ability to correct the pilot’s actions.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8339Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-1485
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 5,563
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 21, 2025 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- GMU · Greenville, SC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- AND · Anderson Rgnl, runway 23, 6,002 × 149 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 6, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,323 total · 50 in this make and model · 1,240 as pilot in command · 167 in the last 90 days · 65 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 27, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 326 total · 4 in this make and model · 218 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- AND
- METAR
- KAND 211456Z AUTO 10SM CLR 08/M06 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP209 T00831056 53020
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 9, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 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.