- Date
- May 22, 2018, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Marysville, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N32064Ayres S2R G10
- Defining event
- Approach: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- Case key
- 97318
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a truck while on final approach after the airplane encountered a downdraft, which resulted in the subsequent failure of the right main landing gear and loss of directional control.
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 commercial pilot reported that he had been applying rice seed to a field throughout the day and was returning to land on a dirt airstrip. During the approach, the airplane encountered a downdraft, and the right main landing gear (MLG) impacted the top of a seed dispensing truck that was positioned near the approach end of the airstrip. The pilot continued the landing, and upon touchdown, the right MLG collapsed, the airplane veered right, crossed over a ditch, and then came to rest in a field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right MLG attachment point to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot landed to the north and reported that the wind was gusting to about 8 to 15 knots.
Factual narrative
The commercial pilot reported that he had been applying rice seed to a field throughout the day and was returning to land on a dirt airstrip. During the approach, the airplane encountered a downdraft and the right main landing gear impacted the top of a seed dispensing truck that was positioned near the approach end of the airstrip. The pilot continued the landing and upon touchdown, the right main landing gear collapsed, the airplane veered to the right, crossed over a ditch and came to rest in a field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right main landing gear attaching point to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot landed to the north and reported the wind was gusting about 8 to 15 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32064
- Reported as
- Ayres S2R G10 (G10)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- G10-113
- Engine
- Garrett Tup-331-10-, 740 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Airworthiness certificate
- None
- Departed
- O52 · Yuba City, CA
- Destination
- Marysville, CA
- Equipment
- None
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
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 25, 2017
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 25,000 total · 12,000 in this make and model · 25,000 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.73 inHg
- Observed at
- KBAB, 113 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 1, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.5 MB in all.
Other investigations on N32064 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.