Roberts Bruce W VANS AIRCRAFT RV 9A N142DD

Summary

On 19 July 2015 at about 18:35 local time, a Roberts Bruce W VANS AIRCRAFT RV 9A registered N142DD was involved in an accident near Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

19 July 2015 at 18:35

Classification

Accident

Location

Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, United States

Nearest airport

Kings Land O' Lakes (LNL)

Coordinates

46.1542, -89.2119

Aircraft

Roberts Bruce W VANS AIRCRAFT RV 9A

Registration

N142DD

Category

Airplane

Year built

2006

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Unknown → Land O' Lakes

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN15LA351

2 people had minor injuries.

The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper descent rate, which resulted in a hard landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot and passenger were landing on a grass strip when the airplane landed hard and bounced twice. The nose gear fork embedded in the grass surface, the nose gear collapsed, and the propeller lodged in the soil. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and main spar. Although the pilot thought that the airplane had hit an uneven surface during landing that caused the gear to collapse, an examination of the grass runway did not reveal any irregularities in the surface of the area of the nose gear collapse.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.