- Date
- May 29, 2014, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- La Cholla, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N34374Meyers MAC 145
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 24, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- FAA report
- 20140529023889A
- Case key
- 89361
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Probable cause
The pilot's overcorrection to a wind gust, which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway veeroff.
Findings · 4
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
The tailwheel equipped airplane received substantial damage to both wings, when the airplane veered off the runway and struck a cacti after the pilot overcorrected to compensate for a wind gust during the landing rollout. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The tailwheel equipped airplane received substantial damage to both wings, when the airplane veered off the runway and struck a cacti after the pilot overcorrected to compensate for a wind gust during the landing rollout. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34374
- Reported as
- Meyers MAC 145
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 217
- Built
- 1953
- Airframe hours
- 1,750
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 2014 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- E95 · Benson, AZ
- Destination
- 57AZ · La Cholla, AZ
- Airport
- 57AZ · LaCholla Airpark, runway 19, 4,500 × 445 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
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 4, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,250 total · 100 in this make and model · 1,125 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.50 inHg
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- 57AZ
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 29, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.