- Date
- December 28, 2005, 15:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Jamestown, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4792APiper PA-22
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20051228033739A
- Case key
- 63078
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing rollout. Factors included the ice on the runway and the soft terrain.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot was landing on the left side of a 25-foot-wide runway because the center of the runway was covered in ice and the left side was clear. During the rollout, the right main landing gear wheel "bumped" the ice. The airplane then veered left, and the left main landing gear tire went off the runway, and into "soft grass." The airplane then nosed over.
Factual narrative
The pilot was landing on the left side of a 25-foot-wide runway because the center of the runway was covered in ice and the left side was clear. During the rollout, the right main landing gear wheel "bumped" the ice. The airplane then veered left, and the left main landing gear tire went off the runway, and into "soft grass." The airplane then nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4792A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51362450
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John H Johnson, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 8G2 · Corry, PA
- Destination
- NY89 · Jamestown, NY
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 168 total · 52 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.