- Date
- February 7, 2016, 13:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Slate Creek, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6394RFox AL KIT FOX Model
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160207004339I
- Case key
- 92778
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 left main landing gear forward gear tube collapsed during the landing roll.
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
The pilot of a tailwheel equipped airplane reported that during the landing roll, the left main landing gear slowly collapsed forward. During a postaccident examination of the airframe by the pilot it was revealed that the left main landing forward gear tube had collapsed, which resulted in substantial damage to the landing gear mounting bracket. Photographs provided by the pilot substantiated that the landing gear had collapsed forward.
Factual narrative
The pilot of a tailwheel equipped airplane reported that during the landing roll, the left main landing gear slowly collapsed forward. During a postaccident examination of the airframe by the pilot it was revealed that the left main landing forward gear tube had collapsed, which resulted in substantial damage to the landing gear mounting bracket. Photographs provided by the pilot substantiated that the landing gear had collapsed forward.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6394R
- Reported as
- Fox AL KIT FOX Model (IV)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1523AF
- Built
- 1991
- Airframe hours
- 676.4
- Engine
- Rotax 912UL, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · January 11, 2016
- Departed
- NoID · Imnaha, OR
- Destination
- None · Slate Creek, ID
- Airport
- None · Pittsburg Landing, runway 15, 850 × 50 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- November 7, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 314 total · 301 in this make and model · 286 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.56 inHg
- Observed at
- KGIC, 24 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 26, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.9 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.