- Date
- December 16, 2021, 15:32 local (23:32 UTC)
- Place
- Ivanhoe, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3744PPiper PA-22
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- 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
- 20211216021109A
- Case key
- 104428
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 bounced landing and subsequent nose over.
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 of a tail wheel equipped airplane reported that, he was a little fast on approach and the airplane bounced after the flare. The airplane subsequently nosed over. Both wings, wing lift struts, and rudder were substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3744P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22 (150)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-3464
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 5,144.78
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320 SERIES, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ferraro Nicholas A
- Registered owner
- Ferraro Nicholas A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 29, 2021
- Departed
- KVIS · Visalia, CA
- Destination
- KVIS · Visalia, CA
- Airport
- PVT · Private, runway 24, 1,200 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2
- Last flight review
- March 12, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 800 in this make and model · 2,900 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KVIS, 9 nm away
- METAR
- KVIS 162314Z AUTO 29008KT 10SM FEW019 SCT027 13/09 A3007 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 18, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.5 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.
Other investigations on N3744P · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.