<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1195852, August 2014

An SQ2000 pilot conducting a very short EFIS airspeed test flight took off then immediately landed where; upon nose gear touchdown; it collapsed.

Attributes
ACN	1195852
Time
Date	201408
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Nose Gear
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 14 Flight Crew Total 270 Flight Crew Type 12
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

This was a high speed taxi with a brief lift off and landing for my experimental amateur built aircraft. I am at the beginning of the 40 hour test flight period but had a necessary crew member due to previous failure of the EFIS on the left side. The crew member was intended to call out speeds up to 80 KTS (which was the rotation speed) from the small EFIS on the right side. I was successful in rotation and brief flight and on landing the front gear collapsed. No injuries and limited airframe damage. Gear collapse was due to failure of a nose gear component.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An SQ2000 pilot conducting a very short EFIS airspeed test flight took off then immediately landed where; upon nose gear touchdown; it collapsed.

Narrative: This was a high speed taxi with a brief lift off and landing for my experimental amateur built aircraft. I am at the beginning of the 40 hour test flight period but had a necessary crew member due to previous failure of the EFIS on the left side. The crew member was intended to call out speeds up to 80 KTS (which was the rotation speed) from the small EFIS on the right side. I was successful in rotation and brief flight and on landing the front gear collapsed. No injuries and limited airframe damage. Gear collapse was due to failure of a nose gear component.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.