14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Friday, August 05, 2011 in Colorado Springs, CO
Probable Cause Approval Date: 11/03/2011
Aircraft: ATTAWAY ROBERT H RV6A, registration: N675RE
Injuries: 1 Serious.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The pilot was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when he turned too early onto the base leg of the traffic pattern and had to make a steep approach to the runway. Upon touchdown, the airplane porpoised several times, causing the nose gear to collapse. The airplane flipped over and departed the side of the runway, causing substantial damage.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
The pilot's failure to maintain control while landing.
The private pilot was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when he turned too early on the base leg and had to make a steep approach to the runway. Upon touchdown, the airplane porpoised several times and the nose gear collapsed. The airplane flipped over and went off the side of the runway.
FOX21: Kelly Helton
EL PASO COUNTY, COLO. -- A small plane landed upside down at Meadow Lake Airport in El Paso County Friday morning, injuring the pilot.
El Paso County Sheriff's deputies received a 911 call around 10:15 a.m. from the airport indicating a plane had made a "hard landing on a runway."
Deputies and Falcon fire crews responded and found the 2002 home-made RV-6A plane upside down.
The pilot, 83-year-old James MacDougald, was out of the plane but incoherant, complaining of leg and head injuries. MacDougald was taken to St. Francis Hospital for evaluation, but his injuries are unknown.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be in charge of clearing the scene and doing an on-site investigation.
Nobody else was in the plane, and there were no injuries on the ground.
An 83-year-old pilot was OK after he landed upside down in his homemade RV6A plane shortly after taking off from Meadowlake airport on Friday morning.
James MacDougald, of Colorado Springs, walked away from his aircraft complaining of minor pain his leg and arm, and was transported to St. Francis Medical Center, according to Sgt. Mike Schaller of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.
At 10 a.m. Falcon Police and fire departments along with El Paso County sheriff's deputies were called to the scene after MacDougald's plane had a hard landing. They heard MacDougald calling out to them from underneath his plane, according to the Sheriff's office.
Members of the National Transportation Safety Board were called to the scene to conduct an investigation.
By early afternoon, MacDougald was no longer a patient in St. Francis records, indicating that he had been released.
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