I was too. As soon as I got home from the hospital I got on the Web and googled how to report an accident. Turns out there is a link on the NTSB page. Basically here is what you do.
Contact the NTSB's 24-hour Response Operations Center (ROC) at 844-373-9922 to file a report. A phone call is sufficient initially, but a written follow-up may be required. 49 CFR 830 covers this. It says immediately but does not define that term. I did file the 6120.1 form but my situation was a bit convoluted. The FAA got involved because of my report over the radio of smoke in the cockpit. The Aircraft I was talking to relayed my situation to Rockford Approach. The FSDO guy Bill lives near here and knows the owner at Poplar Grove Airport and helped retrieve the aircraft that night. Bill talked with the NTSB and they decided to make him their eyes and ears on this report. They were curious about the Corvair so wanted to take a look. I luckily had all my paperwork and signoffs in order so I felt it was all good and I had nothing to fear from the feds on this accident. My landing was precautionary as I may have made it back to C77. In the 45 seconds I had to make a decision I decided not to try. # miles over trees with a rough engine at 500 ft was not a risk I was willing to take. Craig > On June 4, 2019 at 10:42 PM Kayak via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > > > I'm curious about this process. Does FAA have the airplane? How does that > work? What happens, and when after an off field landing with damage like > this? Did you call it into them right away? Who do you call, the FSDO? > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
