- Date
- June 21, 2014, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wayne, NE
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N996AZZach Vans RV-6A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 14, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20140621009399A
- Case key
- 89629
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 became distracted and landed short of the runway. Contributing to the accident was the hole in the ground.
Findings · 3
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
When the airplane turned onto final approach for runway 13, the pilot noticed two rows of round cornstalk bales in front of him and this became a distraction. The airplane touched down short of the runway and after rolling about 50 feet, the nose wheel hit a hole in the ground and the airplane nosed over, buckling the firewall. The ground was soft from a previous rainfall.
Factual narrative
The pilot said that when he turned onto final approach for runway 13, he noticed two rows of round cornstalk bales in front of him and this became a distraction. The airplane touched down short of the runway and after rolling about 50 feet, the nose wheel hit a hole in the ground and the airplane nosed over.A Federal Aviation Administration inspector who went to the scene said the ground was soft from a previous rainfall. His examination of the airplane revealed the firewall was buckled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N996AZ
- Reported as
- Zach Vans RV-6A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 23673
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 789
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Zach Propane Service, Inc
- Registered owner
- Zach Propane Service, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · November 20, 2013 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- Y14 · Tea, SD
- Destination
- KLCG · Wayne, NE
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- KLCG · Wayne Muni/Stan Morris Field, runway 13, 3,400 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 66
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- June 7, 2013
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 910 total · 789 in this make and model · 850 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.77 inHg
- Observed at
- KOFK, 25 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 7, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 550 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.