- Date
- August 5, 2011, 10:16 local (16:16 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N675REAttaway Robert H RV6A
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- FAA report
- 20110805016119A
- Case key
- 81402
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control while landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when he turned too early onto the base leg of the traffic pattern and had to make a steep approach to the runway. Upon touchdown, the airplane porpoised several times, causing the nose gear to collapse. The airplane flipped over and departed the side of the runway, causing substantial damage.
Factual narrative
The private pilot was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when he turned too early on the base leg and had to make a steep approach to the runway. Upon touchdown, the airplane porpoised several times and the nose gear collapsed. The airplane flipped over and went off the side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N675RE
- Reported as
- Attaway Robert H RV6A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 60113
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360 SERIES, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Macdougald James A
- Registered owner
- Macdougald James A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- KFLY · Colorado Springs, CO
- Destination
- KFLY · Colorado Springs, CO
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- KFLY · Meadowlake Airport, runway 15
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 83
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total · 800 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 28, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 86 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.