- Date
- October 30, 2004, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Zellwood, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N212KRSteven W. Jones KR2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 24, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20041030029769A
- Case key
- 60661
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during landing resulting in the on-ground collision with a drainage ditch.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated that after touching down on the runway, the airplane bounced and while airborne in a right wing low attitude, the airplane veered 20-30 degrees to the right. He added full power to go around, but the P-factor from the counterclockwise rotating engine continued the airplane veering to the right. He then applied forward elevator input, reduced power, touched down on the runway. After landing, he applied the brakes, but the airplane veered off the right side of the runway and traveled into a drainage ditch, causing the nose and left main landing gear wheels to separate.
Factual narrative
On October 30, 2004, about 1500 eastern daylight time, a homebuilt KR2, N212KR, registered to a private individual, experienced a loss of control during landing and collided with a drainage ditch at Bob White Field Airport, Zellwood, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight from Venice Municipal Airport, Venice, Florida, to the Bob White Field Airport. The airplane was substantially damaged and the private-rated pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. The flight originated about 1400, from the Venice Municipal Airport.
The pilot stated that after touching down on the runway, the airplane bounced and while airborne in a right wing low attitude, the airplane veered 20-30 degrees to the right. He added full power to go around, but the P-factor from the counterclockwise rotating engine continued the airplane veering to the right. He then applied forward elevator input, reduced power, touched down on the runway. After landing, he applied the brakes, but the airplane veered off the right side of the runway and traveled into a drainage ditch, causing the nose and left main landing gear wheels to separate.
The National Transportation Safety Board was notified of the accident on November 22, 2004, by personnel from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N212KR
- Reported as
- Steven W. Jones KR2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- KR2FL2002
- Engine
- Volkswagen Unknown, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Steven W. Jones
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- KVNC · Venice, FL
- Destination
- X61 · Zellwood, FL
- Airport
- X61 · Bob White Field Airport, runway 27
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 313 total · 192 in this make and model · 77 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N212KR · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.