- Date
- March 9, 2016, 17:05 local (23:05 UTC)
- Place
- Chesapeake, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N201RQRemos G 3/600
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20160309002249A
- Case key
- 92842
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Probable cause
The pilot's unstable approach, which resulted in excessive airspeed during the touchdown, subsequent bounced landing, collapsed nose landing gear, and a 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
According to the pilot, during final approach, his airspeed was too fast. He reported that he decided to extend the landing flare in ground effect in order to bleed off the excess airspeed. As the airplane's main landing gear touched down on the runway, the airplane bounced. The pilot reported that when the airplane settled back on the runway, the nose gear collapsed and the airplane exited the runway to the left. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall and the composite fuselage floorboard. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with the airplane prior to or during the flight that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, during final approach, his airspeed was too fast. He reported that he decided to extend the landing flare in ground effect in order to bleed off the excess airspeed. As the airplane's main landing gear touched down on the runway, the airplane bounced. The pilot reported that when the airplane settled back on the runway, the nose gear collapsed and the airplane exited the runway to the left. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall and the composite fuselage floorboard. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with the airplane prior to or during the flight that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N201RQ
- Reported as
- Remos G 3/600 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 201
- Built
- 2007
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS/206196, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald Lee
- Registered owner
- Donald Lee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · April 15, 2015 · 206.3 hours before
- Departed
- HTW · Chesapeake/Huntington Wva, OH
- Destination
- HTW · Chesapeake/Huntington Wva, OH
- Airport
- HTW · Lawrence County Airpark, runway 26, 3,001 × 70 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Handheld GPS, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 11, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,750 total · 34 in this make and model · 1,693 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KHTS, 4 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 29, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 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.