- Date
- July 22, 2025, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Farmingdale, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67722Howard DGA-15P
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- 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
- 20250722010659A
- Case key
- 200622
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane while landing in a crosswind.
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 of the vintage, tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that he performing a wheel landing. A nearly direct left crosswind of approximately 8 knots prevailed at the time. After touchdown, the pilot began lowering the tail when the airplane started veering to the left. He applied full right rudder, but the airplane continued to yaw left. The pilot was uncertain whether the tailwheel had touched the ground during this time. As the left turn continued, the airplane departed the left side of the runway and came to rest oriented approximately 180 degrees from the landing direction. During the runway excursion, the right main landing gear collapsed, and the right wing contacted the ground, substantially damaging it. The pilot did not report that there were any preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67722
- Reported as
- Howard DGA-15P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 560
- Built
- 1942
- Airframe hours
- 3,242
- Engine
- Pratt&Whitney Wasp Jr (985), 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 2025 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- 1B2 · Edgartown, MA
- Destination
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Airport
- FRG · Republic Airport, runway 14, 6,833 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Onboard weather
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 185 in this make and model · 3,590 as pilot in command · 59 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- FRG
- METAR
- KFRG 221253Z 04008KT 10SM SCT046 SCT060 22/13 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP204 T02170128
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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.