ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292373
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| Date: | Friday 5 May 2006 |
| Time: | 10:00 LT |
| Type: | Rupp Rutan Defiant |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N726RD |
| MSN: | 26 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 650 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Coeur d'Alene Airport/Pappy Boyington Field, ID (COE/KCOE) |
| Coeur d'Alene Airport/Pappy Boyington Field, ID (COE/KCOE) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot said that he had recently purchased the airplane and had very little flight time in it. He said that he was airborne to practice landings. On the first landing, the airplane landed on its rudder, which is mounted beneath the nose adjacent to the nose wheel landing gear. He said that he thought he put the nose wheel landing gear down [in this airplane, only the nose wheel landing gear retracts], but the airplane's maintenance records indicated that this has happened on two previous occasions during the airplane's 18 years of existence. The pilot said that he is in the process of having the landing-gear mechanism inspected.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to put the nose wheel landing gear down for landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB SEA06CA097
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Oct-2022 17:56 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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