- Date
- October 19, 2013, 13:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Deer Park, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2849CCollins Zenith Stol CH 701
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 1, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 88250
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate flare and failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing with a tailwind.
Findings · 3
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 stated that during the landing flare, the airplane encountered a tailwind that caused the airplane to rapidly descend and land hard. The airplane touched down on all three wheels and then began to encounter pitch oscillations that caused the nose wheel to collapse. Subsequently the airplane nosed over which resulted in substantial damage to both wings. The pilot reported no preexisting mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that during the landing flare, the airplane encountered a tailwind that caused the airplane to rapidly descend and land hard. The airplane touched down on all three wheels and then began to encounter pitch oscillations that caused the nose wheel to collapse. Subsequently the airplane nosed over which resulted in substantial damage to both wings. The pilot reported no preexisting mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2849C
- Reported as
- Collins Zenith Stol CH 701 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7084
- Built
- 2010
- Airframe hours
- 20
- Engine
- Great Plains Type I, 103 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special); Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 16, 2012
- Departed
- DEW · Deer Park, WA
- Destination
- DEW · Deer Park, WA
- Airport
- DEW · Deer Park, runway 22, 1,800 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot, Unknown
- Last flight review
- October 27, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 71.1 total · 24.6 in this make and model · 23.7 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- DEW
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 28, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 MB in all.