- Date
- November 8, 2024, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, GA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69LMVans RV8-A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- 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
- 20241108021789A
- Case key
- 195476
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
A nose landing gear collapse on landing and subsequent nose over.
Findings · 1
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
After completing a local flight, the pilot recalled the direction of landing required a steep descent during the final approach due to tall trees at the approach end of the runway. The pilot otherwise did not recall any of the details of the accident following the short final segment of the landing approach. A witness described, and surveillance video confirmed, that the airplane touched down, experienced a “very short” bounce, and then impacted the turf runway nose landing gear first, resulting in the nose landing gear collapsing and the airplane nosing over. The airplane’s fuselage, empennage, and right wing sustained substantial damage during the accident sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69LM
- Reported as
- Vans RV8-A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 81427
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 1,040
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · February 12, 2024 · 47 hours before
- Airport
- 0GE5 · Mountain Airpark, runway N, 2,500 × 130 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Handheld GPS, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 73
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 18, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 2,292 total · 1,040 in this make and model · 2,292 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 76 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- GVL, 18 nm away
- METAR
- KGVL 081753Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 24/18 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP187 T02440178 10256 20194 58021
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.