- Date
- July 7, 2025, 13:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Page, AZ · On airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9019DPiper PA-22-160
- 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
- 20250707013329A
- Case key
- 200509
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 with a quartering tailwind.
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing approach he felt a right-rear quartering wind gust. Upon touchdown, the airplane was difficult to control with a tendency to veer to the right. While attempting to correct back to runway centerline, the airplane ground looped to the right. During the ground loop the left main landing gear collapsed, and the left wing impacted the runway surface. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing the airplane on runway 33 with wind from 220°, variable between 180° to260° at 11 knots, gusting 21 knots. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9019D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-6154
- Built
- 1958
- Airframe hours
- 3,375.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ventana Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2025
- Departed
- RIF · Richfield, UT
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PGA · Page Muni, runway 33, 5,950 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 72
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Unknown
- Last flight review
- March 22, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 502.9 total · 382.9 in this make and model · 386.1 as pilot in command · 4.4 in the last 90 days · 4.4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Age
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Remote, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 11 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KPGA
- METAR
- KPGA 072153Z AUTO 22011G21KT 180V260 10SM CLR 37/M02 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP097 T03671017
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.6 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.
Other investigations on N9019D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.