Piper Single Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30; Flight Crew Total 4021; Flight Crew Type 15
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Aircraft Equipment Problem Dissipated; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem
Weather; Human Factors; Aircraft
After landing; aircraft started [a] right [drift]; then back to the left catching the wheel pant causing the wheel pant to wrap up underneath the right tire. It appeared the tire [air pressure] had leaked down during the flight. A ground loop resulted. Aircraft was on roll out and had slowed before the ground loop occurred. Wingtip scraped ground; did not cause any structural damage. Wheel pant was damaged; and rim was damaged. A quartering tailwind may have contributed. Wind sock on the approach end of the runway was showing no wind; but it was reported by a witness that the midfield wind sock showed a 10 knot quartering tailwind. Tower had reported winds light and variable.
Single Pilot reported loss of directional control during landing rollout resulting in a ground loop. A wheel pant was damaged to due to tire air pressure leak.