2012 – N22UD – Taras Rud – Velocity XL/RG – Key West, FL – 0

Gear Up The pilot of a sleek, silver home-built kit airplane that experienced landing gear failure Sunday was identified by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Taras Rud, 37, from Vero Beach landed the 2010 Velocity aircraft on its belly at the Key West International Airport when its landing gear failed to lower, Monroe County Sheriff’s […]

Crash at Warren County

UPDATE: This article says that it was, in fact, a rental from our flight school, although the family was from out of town. This article has a brief video. Here is the NTSB probable cause. Just a quick post so folks don’t worry, there was a crash at out airport with some injuries today. It wasn’t us. It looks […]

2011 – N67WR – Robert Malloy – Velocity SE/RG – Sebastian, FL – 0

Another Velocity (N67WR) is down, I don’t yet know which airplane this is, or why it went down (high winds at 20 kts is vague), but it sounds like he just allowed himself to get blown off course and low maybe while doing touch and goes. It would later also go down in this accident. […]

2011 – N360TV – Kirk Aragon – Velocity SE/FG – Sanford, NC – 1

UPDATE: The NTSB initial report and probable causes are out, the Fayetteville Observer is reporting, and the NTSB is saying that the airplane only had 143 total hours since 1996, that the airplane was out of annual, Kirk’s total flight time was 375 hours, that he was not current, and that the turbo wastegate may […]

2011 – N9699 – Kevin Carr – Cozy – Aurora, OR – 0

Forced landing due to rough running engine, serious injuries. | FAA | NTSB initial | NTSB factual | NTSB probable cause | News1 | On September 11, 2010, about 1745 Pacific daylight time, an experimental Savage-Cozy, N9699, airplane, experienced a loss of engine power while in the traffic pattern, and the pilot attempted to land on […]

2010 – N112TH – James Robertson – Velocity SE/RG – Wooster, OH – 0

Apparently Jim ran out of gas. The pilot reported that, prior to departure, the fuel system sight gages indicated he had over 25 gallons of fuel on board; he did not visually check the fuel level in the tanks. Upon reaching his destination, the pilot made a low approach over the runway, climbed, and flew […]