- Date
- October 15, 2022, 09:02 local (16:02 UTC)
- Place
- Prescott, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N270LAeroprakt Manufacturing SP Zoo A22LS
- 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
- FAA report
- 20221015020809A
- Case key
- 106140
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing with a wind gust, which resulted in a runway excursion and 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 reported that, while conducting a touch-and-go landing, the airplane encountered a wind gust from the right, that lifted the right wing. The airplane departed the runway surface onto grass and impacted a runway sign. As a result of the impact, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings, and the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N270L
- Reported as
- Aeroprakt Manufacturing SP Zoo A22LS
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 270
- Built
- 2016
- Airframe hours
- 697
- Engine
- Rotax 912 IS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Flight test · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hangar 3 Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 11, 2022 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- KPRC · Prescott, AZ
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KPRC · Prescott Regional Airport, runway 21R, 4,846 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B, Onboard weather
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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- September 17, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 752 total · 30 in this make and model · 647 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- KPRC
- METAR
- KPRC 151453Z 00000KT 10SM FEW085 13/03 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP127 T01280033 53007
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 31, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.9 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.