- Date
- October 28, 2022, 18:00, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Reno, NV
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N673PHVans RV10
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20221028022789A
- Case key
- 106602
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 pilot’s improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
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 reported that, he was on final approach and remained higher than normal and intended to land long to provide more separation from the wake turbulence from another airplane that had just landed. During the landing, the pilot “flared the airplane a little high, and the airplane fell from a few feet above the runway.” The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N673PH
- Reported as
- Vans RV10
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 41830
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 558
- Engine
- Lycoming YIO-540-D4A5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- N673ph LLC
- Registered owner
- N673ph LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Condition · November 1, 2021 · 220 hours before
- Departed
- C92 · Paradise, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RNO · Reno/Tahoe International, runway 16R, 11,001 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 12, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 462 total · 245 in this make and model · 292 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 30° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KRNO
- METAR
- METAR KRNO 290155Z 03004KT 10SM BKN100 BKN180 15/M09 A3022 RMK AO2 SLP224 T01501089=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 2, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.8 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.