- Date
- May 29, 2024, 15:05 local (22:05 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3267ZPiper PA-22-150
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20240529008459A
- Case key
- 194384
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain direction control during the landing roll with a left crosswind.
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 during landing, the airplane was fast and subsequently began to deviate to the left. The pilot attempted to correct with opposite rudder, aileron, and brakes; however, the airplane ground looped to the left, and the right main landing gear collapsed. The right wing struck the ground during the ground loop, which resulted in substantial damage. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 31L, and the wind was from 250° at 6 knots, gusting to 14 knots. Given the crosswind conditions at the time, the pilot likely did not maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3267Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-7218
- Airframe hours
- 3,000
- Engine
- Lycoming engines O-320, 150 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 19, 2023
- Departed
- SPB · Scappoose, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- HIO · Portland-Hillsboro, runway 13R/31L, 6,600 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 5, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 18,200 total · 10 in this make and model · 12,700 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.35 inHg
- Observed at
- KHIO, 52 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KHIO 292153Z 31010KT 10SM FEW048 BKN070 17/07 A3035 RMK AO2 RAB02E21 SLP276 P0001 T01720067=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 22, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 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.