Tolsma Tony G AVID MAGNUM N211RT

Summary

On 28 April 2007 at about 19:45 local time, a Tolsma Tony G AVID MAGNUM registered N211RT was involved in an accident near Jackpot, Nevada, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

28 April 2007 at 19:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Jackpot, Nevada, United States

Nearest airport

Jackpot/Hayden Field (06U)

Coordinates

41.9761, -114.6581

Aircraft

Tolsma Tony G AVID MAGNUM

Registration

N211RT

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Caldwell → Jackpot

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX07CA138

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's inadequate weather evaluation, inadequate compensation for the wind conditions, and decision to land with a gusty, quartering tailwind. Also causal was the pilot's misjudged landing flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing, resulting in a loss of directional control, collision with an object, and a nose over.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The experimental conventional landing gear equipped airplane ground looped and nosed over following a hard landing. The pilot flew crosswind to check the wind direction, and he thought that the winds favored landing on runway 33. They were variable at 5 knots gusting to 10. On downwind, the windsock indicated that he would have a quartering tail wind. He decided to continue the landing on 33 because it was uphill, and he didn't think that the wind was too bad. But during the landing, the airplane stalled about 3 feet over the runway, impacted the runway hard, and bounced into the air. When the airplane touched down again, it veered left and ground looped. The right wing impacted a runway sign, and the airplane nosed over. When the pilot exited the airplane, he noticed that the winds were gusting more than he expected. He also reported that there were no malfunctions with the airplane prior to the accident.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.