- Date
- April 16, 2022, 09:56 local (16:56 UTC)
- Place
- Oxnard, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N90YYStoddard Hamilton Glasair Super II
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: 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
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220416005459A
- Case key
- 104955
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control while on final approach, which resulted in a collision with a runway approach light.
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 the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, while on short final approach, he felt a “sudden loss of altitude”. Before the pilot could make a correction, the left wing collided with a runway approach light. The airplane subsequently landed short, slid through the overrun area, and came to a rest at the displaced threshold, resulting in substantial damage to the forward fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90YY
- Reported as
- Stoddard Hamilton Glasair Super II (TD)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2020
- Built
- 2020
- Airframe hours
- 91.7
- Engine
- Lycoming IO540, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ground Rush Entertainment
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special); Standard, Aerobatic; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- February 28, 2022
- Departed
- KDRO · Durango, CO
- Destination
- KOXR · Oxnard, CA
- Airport
- OXR · Oxnard, runway 25, 5,953 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 17, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 1,078 total · 92 in this make and model · 887 as pilot in command · 43 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KOXR, 7 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KOXR 161651Z 22008KT 10SM SCT017 16/11 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP193 T01560111=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 26, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11.7 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.