- Date
- May 17, 2023, 15:59 local (22:59 UTC)
- Place
- Tracy, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2771CCessna 170B
- 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 Oakland FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230517020809A
- Case key
- 192782
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 failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll after encountering a wind gust.
Findings · 4
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 during the landing roll a wind gust caused the left wing to raise. The pilot was unable to maintain directional control and came to rest adjacent to the runway. The airplane sustained substantial structural damage to its wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2771C
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26315
- Built
- 1954
- Engine
- Cont Motor C145 SERIES, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenmore Crew Leasing Inc Trustee
- Registered owner
- Kenmore Crew Leasing Inc Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KTRM · Palm Springs, CA
- Destination
- KTCY · Tracy, CA
- Airport
- TCY · Tracy Muni, runway 30, 4,001 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- 36
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 16, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,089 total · 8 in this make and model · 1,003 as pilot in command · 148 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.84 inHg
- Observed at
- KTCY
- METAR
- METAR KTCY 172255Z AUTO 30011KT 10SM CLR 33/04 A2984 RMK A01=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 21, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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 N2771C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.