- Date
- October 21, 1996, 15:21 local (21:21 UTC)
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3461APiper PA-22-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19961021035679A
- Case key
- 42532
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Probable cause
the pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions, while landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control and an inadvertent ground swerve. The crosswind was a related factor.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped Piper did not maintain directional control of the airplane, while landing in a crosswind. The airplane departed the runway on the left side, and the right main landing gear collapsed, causing substantial damage.
Factual narrative
On October 21, 1996, approximately 1521 mountain daylight time, N3461A, a Piper PA-22, sustained substantial damage when the main landing gear collapsed after the pilot lost directional control while landing. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant, was uninjured. No flight plan was filed for the flight, which had originated from Ogden, Utah. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. There was no report of the ELT actuating.
On touchdown on runway 3, approximately 1600 feet from the approach end, the right wing was observed to be high. The aircraft leveled out and skidded off the left side of the runway. Winds at the time were about 310 degrees at 10 knots. According to the pilot's written statement, on landing rollout the aircraft started to veer to the left; right rudder and brake were applied, the right landing gear failed, and the aircraft slid to a stop on the left side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3461A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-1735
- Airframe hours
- 2,880
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David J Boydston
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 16, 1996 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- OGD
- Airport
- OGD · Ogden Municipal, runway 3, 7,000 × 150 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,022 total · 60 in this make and model · 1,922 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KOG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.