- Date
- April 5, 2001, 14:55 local (21:55 UTC)
- Place
- Mobile, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5544PBeech F-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 28, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20010405006319A
- Case key
- 52030
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Probable cause
The certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the dual student who failed to recognize the extent of the crosswind and lost directional control. A factor in the accident was the variable wind condition.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
After a touch-and-go, when the airplane was about 10-15 feet off the runway, the right wing lifted, the left wing struck the runway, the airplane rolled inverted, and came to rest off the side of the runway. The student pilot made no wind correction inputs. The flight instructor tried to stabilize the airplane but was unsuccessful. A variable wind condition existed at the time of the accident.
Factual narrative
On April 5, 2001, at 1455 hours mountain standard time, a Beech F-33A, N5544P, sustained substantial damage when it dragged a wing and rolled over during a touch-and-go at Mobile Airport, Mobile, Arizona. The airplane was operated under the provisions of CFR 14 Part 91 by Airline Training Center Arizona as a local area instructional flight. The certified flight instructor and the dual student suffered minor injuries. Visual metrological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed for the flight, which originated at the Phoenix Goodyear, Arizona, airport at 1420.
The flight instructor reported that after a touch-and-go, when the airplane was about 10-15 feet off the runway, the right wing lifted. The student pilot made no wind correction inputs. The flight instructor tried to stabilize the airplane but was unsuccessful. The left wing struck the runway and the airplane rolled inverted and came to rest off the side of the runway.
The flight instructor also reported that a variable wind condition existed at the airport. The air traffic at the uncontrolled airport self-directed a runway change minutes before the accident from runway 27 to runway 9 due to the variable wind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5544P
- Reported as
- Beech F-33A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CE 1336
- Airframe hours
- 12,551
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Airline Training Center Arizona Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 30, 2001 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- GYR · Goodyear, AZ
- Destination
- 1AZ0 · Mobile, AZ
- Airport
- 1AZ0 · Mobile Lufthansa Pvt, runway 9, 4,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 38
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 1, 2001
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,852 total · 688 in this make and model · 2,534 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 21
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7 total · 7 in this make and model · 7 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- GYR, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.