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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Argetsinger Dennis P VANS RV-8 · Atwater, MN · July 6, 2024

Date
July 6, 2024 · 09:28 local
Place
Atwater, MN
Airport
Stanton Hill Aerodrome
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N312FM
NTSB investigation
NTSBCEN24LA254
Reported as
Argetsinger Dennis P Vans RV-8
Reported engine
Lycoming O-360-A4M
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
1
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,340 total336 in this make and model13 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

The aircraft bounced multiple times on wet grass while landing. The aircraft exceeded the grass strip, rolled approximately 50 feet into a soybean field where the landing gear sank into the wet soil. The aircraft flipped over the propeller and came to rest inverted. Post accident inspection of the aircraft revealed no evidence of any preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED MULTIPLE TIMES ON WET GRASS WHILE LANDING. THE AIRCRAFT EXCEEDED THE GRASS STRIP, ROLLED APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET INTO A SOYBEAN FIELD WHERE THE LANDING GEAR SANK INTO THE WET SOIL. THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER THE PROPELLER AND CAME TO REST INVERTED. POST ACCIDENT INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF ANY PREIMPACT MECHANICAL MALFUNCTIONS OR FAILURES THAT WOULD HAVE PRECLUDED NORMAL OPERATION.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.