- Date
- August 1, 1994, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Carthage, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N29PTStugart Vans RV-6
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 19, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940801048349A
- Case key
- 9620
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Probable cause
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during landing and unsuitable terrain encountered during the landing roll.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The airplane bounced on landing at the meyers air park, Carthage, Missouri. The pilot failed to maintain directional control and the airplane landed in the grass parallel to the runway. During landing roll, in the grass, the airplane encountered an area which had been plowed, and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On August 1, 1994, at 1300 central daylight time, a Stuart RV-6, N29PT, crashed while landing at the Myers Memorial Air Park, Carthage, Missouri. The airplane was substantially damaged. The commercial pilot and the single passenger on the airplane were not injured. The personal flight originated at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at 1000. No flight plan was filed, and visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time.
The pilot reported the aircraft bounced on landing, on the runway, and came down in the grass to the left of the runway. During landing roll in the grass, he said the airplane encountered an area which was plowed, and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29PT
- Reported as
- Stugart Vans RV-6
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 20033
- Airframe hours
- 300
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James W. Stugart
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1993 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- OSH · Oshkosh, WI
- Airport
- H20 · Meyers Park Airport, runway 21, 3,120 × 50 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
- 57
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,468 total · 320 in this make and model · 2,300 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JLN, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N29PT · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.