- Date
- July 26, 2024, 07:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place
- Oshkosh, WI · On airport
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N94NGDiamond Aircraft Ind DA 42 NG
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 20240726011489A
- Case key
- 194775
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 control during an approach to land, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 2
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 multi-engine, retractable landing gear airplane reported that, while on final approach to land, he allowed the airplane’s airspeed to decay. He attempted to regain airspeed by reducing his bank angle and pitching the nose down; however, the airplane landed hard and the left main landing gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94NG
- Reported as
- Diamond Aircraft Ind DA 42 NG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 42.N004
- Built
- 2009
- Airframe hours
- 2,611
- Engines
- Austro E4, 168 horsepower, reciprocatingAustro E4, 168 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Phoenix East Aviation
- Registered owner
- Mike Charlie Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 10, 2024
- Departed
- LWA · South Haven, MI
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- OSH · Wittman Rgnl, runway 18, 8,002 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Foreign, Commercial, Private, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 22, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,403 total · 38 in this make and model · 1,309 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KOSH
- METAR
- KOSH 262353Z 18006KT 10SM CLR 26/14 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP185 T02560144 10278 20244 56012
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 27, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.