- Date
- December 8, 2023, 17:05 local (22:05 UTC)
- Place
- Bremen, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N330RHVans RV6
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20231208021999A
- Case key
- 193727
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 collapse of the nose landing gear after it contacted soft terrain during the landing roll.
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 was landing on a grass runway when the nose landing gear encountered soft terrain and collapsed during the landing roll. The airplane came to rest in a nose down attitude with substantial damage to the engine mount. The pilot reported that the grass runway was softer than he anticipated, and that the airplane had no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N330RH
- Reported as
- Vans RV6 (A)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 20376
- Built
- 2022
- Airframe hours
- 23
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A3B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · August 20, 2023 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- C65 · Plymouth, IN
- Destination
- PVT · Bremen, IN
- Airport
- PVT · Private Airstrip, runway 27, 1,350 × 50 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Angle of attack indicator
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
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 14,853 total · 12 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots, gusting 13
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.76 inHg
- Observed at
- C65, 8 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KC65 082155Z AUTO VRB06G13KT 10SM OVC027 12/05 A2976 RMK A01=
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.