- Date
- May 23, 2015, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lorain/Elyria, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3086QRogers Homer/Rogers Sheila RV 6A
- Defining event
- Landing: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20150523006389A
- Case key
- 91253
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane attitude control during the landing flare, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall, hard landing, and runway excursion.
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
The pilot reported that during the landing flare, the left wing lifted up and the stall warning horn sounded. He stated the airplane immediately descended, impacted the ground, and slid off the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing flare, the left wing lifted up and the stall warning horn sounded. He stated the airplane immediately descended, impacted the ground, and slid off the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3086Q
- Reported as
- Rogers Homer/Rogers Sheila RV 6A (A)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 23678
- Built
- 1998
- Airframe hours
- 1,370.1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kevin P. McGinty
- Registered owner
- Kevin P. McGinty
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 7, 2015 · 395 hours before
- Departed
- LPR · Lorain/Elyria, OH
- Destination
- LPR · Lorain/Elyria, OH
- Airport
- LPR · Lorain County Rgnl, runway 25, 5,002 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system
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
- 60
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 13, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 167 total · 12 in this make and model · 111 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.42 inHg
- Observed at
- LPR
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 23, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.3 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.