- Date
- August 28, 2008, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N190RVHelie RV-6
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 68812
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain directional control during landing. Contributing to the accident was the crosswind.
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
According to the pilot, during the landing rollout on runway 08, he lost directional control of the aircraft after encountering a left cross wind. Winds were reported as 000 at 10 knots. The pilot applied corrective control inputs, however the action was ineffective in stabilizing the airplane, which departed the left side of the runway. Examination of the airplane revealed the right wing spar and right aileron were bent.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, during the landing roll out on runway 08 at Front Range Airport (FTG) in Denver, Colorado, he lost directional control of the aircraft after encountering a left cross wind. Winds were reported as 000 at 10 knots. The pilot applied corrective control inputs, however, the action was ineffective in stabilizing the airplane which departed the left side of the runway. Examination of the airplane revealed the right wing spar and right aileron were bent.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N190RV
- Reported as
- Helie RV-6
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 30424
- Engine
- Textron Lycoming o-360-a3a, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas Arnold, doing business as Thomas Arnold
- Registered owner
- Thomas Arnold
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- FTG · Denver, CO
- Destination
- FTG · Denver, CO
- Airport
- FTG · Dummy, runway 08
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 293 total · 79 in this make and model · 59 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN