- Date
- November 8, 2021, 12:37 local (20:37 UTC)
- Place
- Redding, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N360WMBearhawk 4
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- 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
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211108019129A
- Case key
- 104221
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 improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent ground loop.
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
The pilot in the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, while making a stabilized normal approach, he flared too high which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent ground loop. The airplane’s main landing gear collapsed, and the left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N360WM
- Reported as
- Bearhawk 4
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Built
- 2009
- Airframe hours
- 120
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-X, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eran Hayoun
- Registered owner
- Eran Hayoun
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 15, 2021
- Airport
- RDD · Redding Muni, runway 16/34, 7,003 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- Last flight review
- April 8, 2021
- Flight hours
- 750 total · 25 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KRDD, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KRDD 081953Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 13/02 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP178 T01280022
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 14, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.