- Date
- December 21, 2024, 16:10 local (Dec 22, 2024, 00:10 UTC)
- Place
- Brawley, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N191DYRemos Remos G-3/600
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Loss of control in flight
- 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
- 20241221021969A
- Case key
- 199462
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 flight instructor’s lack of remedial action to the student pilot’s inadequate landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and a loss of directional control.
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 student pilot stated that the purpose of the flight was to gain familiarity with the airplane under the supervision of a flight instructor. Following departure, they performed serval touch-and-go takeoffs and landings at a nearby airport before returning back to the departure airport. After configuring the airplane for landing and maintaining a stabilized approach, the student pilot prepared for the landing flare. As the airplane crossed over the runway threshold, the airplane suddenly descended and impacted the runway surface hard. The airplane became airborne and veered to the left of the runway centerline. The airplane continued off the runway and impacted a taxiway marker and the windsock pole resulting in it spinning 180° before coming to rest. As a result of the impact the airplane incurred substantial damage to the left wing. The student pilot reported no preimpact mechanical anomalies or malfunctions that could have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N191DY
- Reported as
- Remos Remos G-3/600
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 191
- Airframe hours
- 480
- Engine
- Rotax MML-912, 100 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 2024 · 2 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BWC · Brawley Muni, runway 08/26, 4,166 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 90 total · 2 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Age
- 88
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 23, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 2 in this make and model · 20 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KIPL, 9 nm away
- METAR
- KIPL 220053Z AUTO 30003KT 10SM CLR 19/14 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP169 T01890139
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 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.