- Date
- May 16, 2022, 16:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Douglas, WY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N829PWTwenty Second Street Backcountry Boss
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- 20220516007319A
- Case key
- 105124
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 inadequate flare and subsequent loss of airplane control during landing.
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, during landing the airplane bounced, and he elected to go-around. Full power was applied, and a left turn was initiated, however climb performance was insufficient and resulted in a forced landing in a gravel pit. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wing and fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N829PW
- Reported as
- Twenty Second Street Backcountry Boss
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- BC40617B001
- Built
- 2022
- Airframe hours
- 22
- Engine
- Ly-Con Backcountry Boss, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Twenty Second Street LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · March 9, 2022
- Departed
- KTOR · Torrington, WY
- Destination
- KDGW · Douglas, WY
- Airport
- KDGW · Converse County, runway R29, 6,534 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B
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
- 68
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,329 total · 15 in this make and model · 2,260 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.87 inHg
- Observed at
- KDGW, 0.4 nm away
- METAR
- KDGW 162153Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM CLR 28/01 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP064 T02780011
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 4, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.