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14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Friday, November 06, 2015 in Lebanon, OR
Probable Cause Approval Date: 03/14/2016
Aircraft: KNOX MARION L RV-6A, registration: N259MK
Injuries: 2 Uninjured.
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 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.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control following an aborted landing which resulted in a collision with trees.
NTSB Identification: WPR16CA022
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Friday, November 06, 2015 in Lebanon, OR
Aircraft: KNOX MARION L RV-6A, registration: N259MK
Injuries: 2 Uninjured.
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 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.
An Albany firefighter helps pilot Marion Knox after emergency personnel from Lebanon and Albany free him from the weckage of his Vans RV-6A experimental aircraft, which crashed onto the roof of a shop outside of Lebanon.
A Linn County pilot and his passenger were injured Friday when their experimental plane crashed into the roof of a workshop near the airstrip where they were trying to land.
Pilot Marion Knox, 78, of Lebanon was able to walk away from his downed plane along Bohlken Drive near Lebanon. His passenger, Steve Edmiston, 57, of Albany, while not critically injured, was lowered on a stretcher from the wreckage by emergency personnel. Both men were transported to Good Samaritan Medical center in Corvallis, where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Witnesses said Knox, who maintains a private airstrip on his property, was attempting a third go-around to land at about 12:30 p.m. His RV6A experimental plane went down after failing to clear a stand of trees across the road from the airstrip, coming to a hard rest on the roof of a workshop next to the home of Jim Harper, who was not home at the time.
“He was trying like the dickens. Just for 200 feet or so, he was trying to pull out of it,” said resident Jeff Walters. “If he’d had 10 more feet he probably would have made it.”
Walters said Knox had been flying for maybe 45 minutes when he made two attempts to land, both times pulling up and circling around for another try.
“It looked like he tried to clear the trees for a third try,” said Walters.
The trees stand about 60 to 70 feet high, and Walters said the plane was traveling south with its nose up, almost perpendicular to the ground when it clipped one of the fir trees.
“And that spun him around and put him on the roof,” he said. “I think the only reason they’re alive is because he’s such a good pilot.”
Knox’s wife, Doris Knox, said her husband is a very careful pilot and doesn’t take chances.
“He doesn’t do the acrobatic stuff,” she said. “He was just trying to land, and I don’t know what happened, but something didn’t go right.”
The RV-6A is a kit plane, introduced in 1988 and manufactured in Aurora, Oregon, by Van's Aircraft. Knox built his plane in 2008.
Another RV6 was involved in a fatal crash outside of Scio in 2012, and a fatal crash involving an RV10 aircraft in Newport in May 2014 led to a $35 million lawsuit against Van’s. The suit claims that experimental aircraft such as the RV models are not held to the same Federal Aviation Administration testing standards as are professionally built aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Linn County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the cause of the crash.
Original article can be found here: http://democratherald.com
LEBANON, Ore. (KOIN 6) — An aircraft, carrying two people, crashed onto the top of a building in Linn County.
A spokesperson with the Lebanon Fire Dist. tells KOIN 6 News that crews were dispatched to the 36100 block of Bohlken Drive on reports of an aircraft crash.
When firefighters arrived, they found a 2-seat light aircraft that had crashed on top of a shop building. The aircraft has been identified as a Van’s RV-6A.
Firefighters found both occupants of the plane inside the aircraft. The pilot and passenger were both conscious and talking with rescuers. Neither suffered life-threatening injuries.
“The position of the airplane on the roof was somewhat precarious, requiring firefighters to secure the aircraft prior to extricating the victims,” the fire department said in a prepared statement.
The pilot and passenger, both men, were removed from the aircraft and transported to separate hospitals.
The cause of the crash is being investigated by the Linn County sheriff’s office and the FAA.
Source: http://koin.com
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