- Date
- June 29, 2020, 13:56 local (17:56 UTC)
- Place
- Perkasie, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N408RVVans RV 8
- 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
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20200629010759A
- Case key
- 101514
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 loss of directional control while landing in gusting crosswind conditions, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with a ditch.
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 the tailwheel-equipped airplane in turbulent and gusty crosswind conditions. Upon touchdown, the airplane bounced and then veered left. The pilot attempted to control the airplane, but it continued left off the runway. The airplane subsequently impacted a ditch and the left main landing gear separated before the airplane came to a stop. The fuselage was substantially damaged during the accident. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failure of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N408RV
- Reported as
- Vans RV 8 (Undesignat)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 81144
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- N87 · Robbinsville, NJ
- Destination
- CKZ · Perkasie, PA
- Airport
- CKZ · Pennridge, runway 08, 4,211 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,925 total · 9,999 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- Observed at
- KCKZ, 5 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 9, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 15.0 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.