- Date
- July 24, 2026, 11:40 local (15:40 UTC)
- Place
- Hamilton, OH
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N119YWaco ASO
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 2026
- 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
- 20260724010089A
- Case key
- 203461
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 separation of the right main landing gear axle, which resulted in a loss of control during the landing roll.
Findings · 1
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 reported that after touching down, smoothly on centerline, the airplane veered right. He attempted to apply corrective control inputs which were not successful. The airplane then began to slide, which resulted in the left main wheel and subsequently the right main wheel separating from the landing gear. The airplane continued to slide on the main landing gear struts, with the lower left wing dragging on the runway, until the airplane came to stop on the edge of the runway nearly, and oriented nearly perpendicular to it. This resulted in substantial damage to the lower left wing and aileron. Postaccident photographs showed a rubber witness mark on the right main landing gear strut and fractures of both the main landing gear wheel axles. Given this information, it is likely that during the touchdown sequence the right main landing gear wheel axle began to separate, which resulted in the right main wheel coming into contact with the right main landing gear strut. The contact with the right main landing gear strut likely resulted in the right uncorrectable motion the pilot reported and subsequent sideload and separation of both main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N119Y
- Reported as
- Waco ASO
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3220
- Built
- 1930
- Engine
- Jacobs R755 9, 245 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 21, 2026 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- HAO · Hamilton, OH
- Airport
- HAO · Butler County Rgnl/Hogan Fld, runway 30, 5,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 18, 2026
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 24,000 total · 300 in this make and model · 16,000 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- HAO
- METAR
- METAR KHAO 241453Z AUTO 08006KT 10SM CLR 22/14 A3015 RMK AO2 SLPNO T02220144
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 11, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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.