- Date
- April 29, 2021, 16:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Corvallis, OR · airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N125RJPiper PA-30B
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- FAA report
- 20210429013209A
- Case key
- 102999
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during a simulated engine out landing which resulted in impact with terrain.
Findings · 2
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 pilot and pilot rated passenger were performing a simulated single-engine landing with a left crosswind. According to the passenger, the pilot and he briefed the simulated single-engine procedure prior to the flight and determined that the simulated loss of engine power would be induced by pulling one of the engine mixtures to idle cutoff. He further remarked that they decided that the person at the controls would be responsible for maintaining directional control and any adjustments to the mixture, propeller, and throttle control settings. During the initial approach to land, the passenger pulled the left mixture control to idle to simulate a critical engine failure. The pilot stated that he did not adjust the throttle, propeller, or mixture control settings, and continued the approach to land. While on short final, the airspeed became too slow and the airplane started to balloon, and drift left of runway centerline. The pilot then advanced both engines to full throttle for a go-around, but the airplane yawed and banked to the left and the left wing struck the runway. The airplane then impacted the ground and slid to a stop off the left side of the runway. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N125RJ
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-1351
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 2,673.5
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming IO-320-B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aurora Flight Training
- Registered owner
- American Aircraft Brokers LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 6, 2021
- Departed
- KUAO · Aurora, OR
- Destination
- KCVO · Corvalis, OR
- Airport
- CVO · Corvallis Muni, runway 17/35, 5,900 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,347 total · 8 in this make and model · 1,383 as pilot in command · 107 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 2, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,697.9 total · 19.8 in this make and model · 1,578.4 as pilot in command · 213 in the last 90 days · 84 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- KCVO, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCVO 292356Z AUTO 31013KT 10SM CLR 21/04 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP232 T02110039 10250 20178 53002=
Docket · 7
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 21, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 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.