- Date
- July 11, 2022, 17:00 local (Jul 12, 2022, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kelso, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N43037Piper PA-28-161
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- 20220712012479A
- Case key
- 105511
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 student pilot’s inadequate flare resulting in a loss of airplane control during landing with gusting wind conditions.
Findings · 5
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 student pilot reported that, during the flare for landing, the airplane experienced ground effect and was settling down to the runway when it was hit by “a very intense wind shear with a gust…” The pilot stated that the airplane yawed to the left and that he could not recover as the airplane exited the runway onto the grass. The airplane’s right wing was substantially damaged when it collided with a Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI). The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N43037
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8316068
- Built
- 1983
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Glacier Aviation
- Registered owner
- Glacier Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OLM · Olympia, WA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KLS · Southwest Washington Regional Airport, runway 30, 4,391 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 20
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 40 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KKLS
- METAR
- METAR KKLS 112335Z AUTO 32010KT 10SM CLR 33/16 A2998
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 2, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.0 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.