- Date
- November 10, 2014, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- San Antonio, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N81GWWilliams Glenn RV 8A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- FAA report
- 20141110022499A
- Case key
- 90527
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
Unintentional collision with a deer at night.
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 making a night landing in visual meteorological conditions. During the rollout, a deer ran across the runway and was struck by the airplane, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing spar.
Factual narrative
The pilot was making a night landing in visual meteorological conditions. During the rollout, a deer ran across the runway and was struck by the airplane, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing spar.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81GW
- Reported as
- Williams Glenn RV 8A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 80917
- Built
- 2010
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wolfepack Aviation Group LLC
- Registered owner
- Wolfepack Aviation Group LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- 5C1 · San Antonio, TX
- Destination
- 1T8 · San Antonio, TX
- Airport
- 1T8 · Bulverde Airpark, runway 16, 2,890 × 40 ft, asphalt
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
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 143 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 180° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.79 inHg
- Observed at
- 5C1
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 8, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13 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.