- Date
- February 28, 2009, 10:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fallbrook, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4290TPiper PA-28R-200
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20090228003949A
- Case key
- 73407
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper use of the brakes and his failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing rollout.
Findings · 3
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
According to the pilot, he arrived from the northeast and entered the extended right base leg for Runway 18, a 2,160-foot-long asphalt runway. The winds were reported as 3 knots from the south. Prior to being established on the base leg, he had set full flaps and lowered the landing gear. He said that by the time he turned onto final, the airplane "may have seemed slightly high, speed was good and descent rate appeared good." He further stated that while he landed the airplane on the first half of the runway, he perhaps floated a little bit and that "the landing was a little further than I anticipated." The landing rollout was good until he reached "a slight mound in the runway" that created an optical illusion of the runway's end being closer than it was. He then locked the brakes and skidded off the runway into the brush.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, he arrived from the northeast and entered an extended right base for landing to the south at 1,700 feet msl (pattern altitude). The winds were reported as 3 knots from the south. Prior to being established on the base segment, he had input full flaps and lowered the landing gear. He said that by the time he turned onto final, the airplane "may have seemed slightly high, speed was good and descent rate appeared good." He landed the airplane on the first half of the runway, but that the airplane floated a little bit with the landing a little further than he had anticipated. The roll out was good until he reached a slight mound in the runway that created an optical illusion of the runway's end being closer than it was. He locked the brakes and skidded off the runway into the brush.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4290T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7235003
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- M.Y. Air Corp
- Registered owner
- M.Y. Air Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- REI · Redlands, CA
- Destination
- L18 · Fallbrook, CA
- Airport
- L18 · Fallbrook Community Airport, runway 18, 2,160 × 60 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
- 45
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 7, 2007
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 601 total · 250 in this make and model · 24 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4290T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.