# Incident 20011109031169I: Amtr RV6A, Byron, CA, November 9, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 9, 2001, 14:40 local time
- Place: Byron, CA
- Airport: Byron Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.8284° N, 121.6258° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BYRON (C83), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.8284&lon=-121.6258&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1954G, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N1954G-2016-12-20) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Ken Jack B W VAN GRUNSVEN RV6A (registry code 056076A, https://openairdocs.org/model/ken-jack-b-w-van-grunsven-rv6a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG (registry code 99999, https://openairdocs.org/engine/amateur-built-unknown-eng) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AMTR RV6A
- Pilot flight hours: 3 total, 3 in this make and model, 3 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20011109031169I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) PILOT OWNER STATES: WAS ON ROUTINE FLIGHT DEPARTING AND RETURNING TO HWD WHEN HE NOTICED AN INDICATION OF ABNORMAL CYLINDER HEAD TEMPERATURE ON THE R/H CYLINDERS. HE CONSIDERED RETURNING TO HWD, BUT DECIDED TO MAKE A PRECAUTIONARY LANDING AT C83, AS IT WAS THE NEAREST AIRPORT. HE STATES HE DID NOT WANT TO RISK TRANSITING DENSELY POPULATED AREAS WITH A PROBLEM WHICH MAY HAVE NECESSITATED A FORCED LANDING. APPROACH AND TOUCHDOWN, PILOT STATES WERE NORMAL. UPON LANDING ROLLOUT, HE STATES HE HAD THE IMPRESSION OF THE AIRCRAFT NOSE SINKING "BEYOND WHAT IS NORMAL". HE ATTEMPTED TO ADD POWER, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. THE PROPELLER STRUCK, FOLLOWED BY THE UNDERSIDE OF THE NOSE COWL. IT WAS, HE STATED, QUITE GENTLE. WEATHER WAS CLEAR, AND WINDS NEGLIGIBLE. EXAMINATION OF THE AIRCRAFT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF COMPONENT FAILURE. ALL LANDING GEAR STRUCTURE AND ATTACH HARDWARE APPEARED INTACT. NO STRUCTURAL FAILURE IN EVIDENCE.^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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