- Date
- June 25, 2010, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sewanne, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3856DCrabtree RV6
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100625036849A
- Case key
- 76440
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 pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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, after completing a local flight approximately 1 hour in duration, he returned for landing at his home airport. He then "attempted to land too fast and too high." The airplane bounced twice and veered off the side of the runway into the grass. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, after completing a local flight approximately 1 hour in duration, he returned for landing at his home airport. He then "attempted to land too fast and too high." The airplane bounced twice and veered off the side of the runway into the grass. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3856D
- Reported as
- Crabtree RV6 (A)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 23160
- Airframe hours
- 7
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Damon L. Crabtree
- Registered owner
- Damon L. Crabtree
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · April 5, 2010 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- UOS · Sewanne, TN
- Destination
- UOS · Sewanne, TN
- Airport
- UOS · Franklin County, runway 24, 3,700 × 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
- 83
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Last flight review
- December 23, 1994
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 7 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 24 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- CHA, 36 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 21, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 606 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.