- Date
- August 8, 2023, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7776JVans JV-Special / RV8
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230808021789A
- Case key
- 192833
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with crosswind.
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
The pilot reported that, while executing a three-point landing in a tailwheel-equipped airplane, the airplane touched down and a wind gust pushed the nose of the airplane to the left. The pilot attempted to keep the wings level and remain on the runway. He then applied the brakes and “shoved” the flight control stick forward. The airplane hit the runway on its nose and came to rest upright which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing the airplane on runway 17 with wind from 090° at 9 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7776J
- Reported as
- Vans JV-Special / RV8 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Built
- 2014
- Airframe hours
- 438.1
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360 C1D6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · November 3, 2022
- Departed
- LNC · Lancaster, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 52F · Northwest Rgnl, runway 17, 3,500 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 6, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,756.1 total · 426.7 in this make and model · 4,756.1 as pilot in command · 10.1 in the last 90 days · 4.5 in the last 30 days · 0.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,100 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KAFW, 6 nm away
- METAR
- KAFW 081453Z 09009KT 10SM FEW090 SCT150 BKN210 BKN250 31/21 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP128 VIRGA T03110211 50013=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 25, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.4 MB 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.