RV-7
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 3400; Flight Crew Type 600
Troubleshooting; Workload; Human-Machine Interface
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Incursion Runway
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
I landed on Runway XXR; I exited the runway onto Alpha; cleaned up the plane and made a radio call. I had not heard any radio calls of aircraft landing on Runway XXL and with the time and marine layer to the west thought Runway XXL was closed. As I proceeded to taxi on Alpha to cross Runway XXL I looked left a second time to clear the runway so I could safely cross that's when I saw an aircraft that I had not seen the first time I looked. The aircraft was moving at high speed down the runway; I saw my best option to avoid any kind of accident was to stop immediately. I applied brakes which was apparently to abrupt because the plane started to nose over; I quickly let off the brakes; made sure the stick was full aft (which it was) and tried to pull the mixture to stop the engine. I was not fast enough to stop the engine but by letting off the brakes I was able to prevent a total nose over. The propeller struck the taxiway; the engine stopped and the tailwheel forcefully hit the ground.
Vans RV-7 Single Pilot reported a Critical Ground Conflict while attempting to cross runway with a NORDO landing aircraft.