- Date
- November 6, 2015, 12:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lebanon, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N259MKKnox Marion L RV-6A
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 14, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- FAA report
- 20151106020789A
- Case key
- 92301
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control following an aborted landing which resulted in a collision with trees.
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 was landing the airplane on his 1,500-foot grass airstrip. During the landing, the airplane bounced and the pilot aborted the landing. As power was applied, the airplane moved to the left side of the runway into trees and the airplane came down on a workshop roof south of the runway substantially damaging the fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot was landing the airplane on his 1,500-foot grass airstrip. During the landing, the airplane bounced and the pilot aborted the landing. As power was applied, the airplane moved to the left side of the runway into trees and the airplane came down on a workshop roof south of the runway substantially damaging the fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N259MK
- Reported as
- Knox Marion L RV-6A (A)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 20253
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 255
- Engine
- Mazda 13B, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Marion KNOX
- Registered owner
- Marion KNOX
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · June 4, 2015 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- none · Lebanon, OR
- Destination
- none · Lebanon, OR
- Airport
- none · Private, runway west, 1,500 × 80 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, 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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 324 total · 255 in this make and model · 271.3 as pilot in command · 12.8 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.31 inHg
- Observed at
- CVO, 15 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 11, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 997 KB 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.