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| Date: | Friday 23 July 2021 |
| Time: | 12:45 LT |
| Type: |  Van's RV-7 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N977RV |
| MSN: | 71409 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2005 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Oshkosh-Wittman Field (OSH/KOSH), Oshkosh, WI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Fort Dodge Airport, IA (FOD/KFOD) |
| Oshkosh-Wittman Field, WI (OSH/KOSH) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
An experimental amateur-built RV-7 airplane, N977RV, and an RV-8 airplane, N747JG, sustained substantial damage when they were involved in an accident at Wittman Regional Airport (OSH), Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The pilots of both airplanes were not injured.
The pilots reported that they were landing at an airshow fly-in in a staggered four-airplane formation. The RV-8 was in the No. 2 position and the RV-7 was right behind it in the No. 3 position. The RV-7 bounced during the landing and the pilot lost sight of the RV-8 in front of him. The air traffic controller instructed the flight to turn left onto the grass and the RV-8 pilot later reported that he started the turn 'without regarding the airplane behind' him. According to the RV-7 pilot, when the RV-8 came back into view, it was turning left directly in front of his airplane. The RV-7 pilot immediately applied the brakes and swerved hard to the right, but his left wing impacted the RV-8's rudder, followed by the right wing and aileron. Both airplanes sustained substantial damage.
Both pilots reported that the airshow environment created pressure to land, stop, and get off the runway into the grass as quickly as possible.
Probable Cause: The RV-8 pilot's failure to account for the position of the RV-7 behind him during the landing roll in a staggered landing formation, which resulted in a ground collision of the two airplanes. Contributing to the accident was the self-induced pressure created by the airshow environment to land, stop, and get off the runway into the grass as quickly as possible.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN21LA336
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N977RV
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 June 2023 | N977RV | Private | 1 | near Gibbon, NE | |
w/o |
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Jul-2021 17:19 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 13-Aug-2022 12:00 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Cn, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report, ] |
| 13-Aug-2022 14:47 | harro | Updated [Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 15-Nov-2024 19:01 | BEAVERSPOTTER | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, ] |
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