WPR12CA330

The pilot stated immediately after the accident that during the landing flare, after he had reduced the power, the airplane ballooned with increasing oscillations and veered left off the runway. He applied left rudder to avoid another taxiing airplane and impacted a row of hangars. In a subsequent written statement, the pilot indicated that his right foot got caught between the rudder pedal and the control column cover during landing. In the process of freeing his foot, the airplane pitched up and down and veered off the runway; he “jammed” the left rudder to avoid a taxiing airplane, and the right wing of his airplane impacted a row of hangars. There were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation of the airplane.

The pilot stated to the NTSB investigator immediately after the accident that he had pulled off the power, and during the landing flare, the airplane ballooned with increasing oscillations veering left off the runway. He applied left rudder to avoid another taxing airplane, and impacted a row of hangars. In a following written statement the pilot stated that during landing his right foot got caught between the rudder pedal and the control column cover. In the process of freeing his foot the airplane pitched up and down, veered off the runway, he applied left rudder to avoid a taxiing airplane, and impacted a row of hangars. The pilot stated that he airplane and engine had no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.