Piper PA-22-108 N4556Z

Summary

On 2 January 1999 at about 19:18 local time, a Piper PA-22-108 registered N4556Z was involved in an accident near Hayward, California, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

2 January 1999 at 19:18

Classification

Accident

Location

Hayward, California, United States

Nearest airport

Hayward Air Terminal (HWD)

Coordinates

37.6295, -122.0409

Aircraft

Piper PA-22-108

Registration

N4556Z

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX99LA064

Nobody was injured.

The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain directional control. A factor in this accident was the inadvertent ground loop swerve.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot was completing the last of his touch-and-go landings at a local airport. During the flare he said the airplane began to drift to the right and said he noticed the left wing getting ready to contact the ground, as if in a ground loop condition. The pilot applied full throttle in an attempt to fly away. He stated the airplane did not want to fly so he elected to close the throttle and attempted to straighten out the airplane for landing. The aircraft contacted the ground and subsequently nosed over. The gascolator was compromised during the crash, which allowed unregulated fuel to enter the engine cowling. The postcrash fire ensued which destroyed the airplane. The pilot reported that the weather conditions at the time of the crash as reported on ATIS were winds 070 at 4 knots.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.