# Incident 20120123001369I: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008, Port Orange, FL, January 23, 2012

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 23, 2012, 09:54 local time
- Place: Port Orange, FL
- Airport: Spruce Creek
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.0802° N, 81.0466° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SPRUCE CREEK (7FL6), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.0802&lon=-81.0466&mi=10
- Aircraft: N208TA, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N208TA) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008 (registry code 060007Q, https://openairdocs.org/model/costruzioni-aeronautiche-tecna-p2008) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Rotax 912ULS series (registry code 55572, https://openairdocs.org/engine/rotax-912uls-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNA P2008
- Reported engine: ROTAX 912ULS
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 2,250 total, 50 in this make and model, 45 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20120123001369I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN HARD IN GRASS JUST SHORT OF RWY 23 DURING LDG, AND THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED AS THE ACFT ROLLED ONTO THE RWY. THE ACFT THEN SKIDDED AND VEERED TO THE LEFT BEFORE COMING TO REST NEAR THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RWY JUST BEFORE THE DISPLACED RWY THRESHOLD. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: THE PVT PLT FLYING THE ACFT WAS RECEIVING A DEMO FLT FROM A COMMERCIAL/CFI PLT AS A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER. THIS WAS HIS FIRST FLT AND LDG IN THIS ACFT MODEL. THE FLT HAD DEPARTED THE SAME ARPT APPROX 20 MINUTES EARLIER. DURING THE LDG APPROACH, THE COMMERCIAL PILOT/CFI REPORTEDLY INSTRUCTED THE PVT PILOT TO USE 55-60 KTS FOR APPROACH AND LDG SPEEDS. FLAPS WERE ALSO USED. JUST PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN, THE ACFT SUDDENLY DROPPED TO THE GROUND WHEN THE PVT PILOT REDUCED THE POWER TO IDLE AS HE BEGAN TO FLARE THE ACFT FOR TOUCHDOWN.THE COMMERCIAL PILOT NOTED THAT THE APPCH WAS NORMAL, AND THAT THE PVT PILOT APPEARED TO LET THE ACFT GET "A BIT SLOW" (AROUND 52 KTS OR LESS) JUST PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN.ACCORDING TO MFR SPECS FOR THIS ACFT, THE FLAPS DOWN / PWR OFF STALL SPEED IS 41 KTS.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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