Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to attain a touchdown on the runway’s hard surface, which resulted in a loss of directional control.
NTSB analysis
The pilot stated that, after the nosewheel touched down during landing, he applied the right rudder and brake but that he was unable to keep the airplane from veering left into a 2-foot-high snow bank several feet off the runway. Runway witness marks showed that the right landing gear wheel touched down in snow and gravel off the right side of the runway's hard surface and that the left landing gear wheel touched down on the runway's hard surface. Both wheels then skidded left and off the runway. Examinations revealed no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Text from the NTSB. Open the NTSB docket for CEN14LA138 for the full record.
Event
- Date
- Feb 11, 2014
- Type
- Accident
- Place
- Marion, Iowa
- Nearest airport
- Marion Airport (C17)
- Highest injury
- None
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- Light
- Dusk
Piper PA 46-350P
- N-number
- N350AR
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1990
- Damage
- Substantial
- Operating rule
- Part 91 (general aviation)
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
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