- Date
- June 20, 2006, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sanford, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5024JFantasy Air Allegro 2000
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Greensboro FSDO
- FAA report
- 20060620014129A
- Case key
- 63989
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare, and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
According to the student pilot, during touchdown the airplane bounced twice. He attempted to add full power to go-around, but the left wing impacted the ground, and the airplane spun around 180-degrees. The student pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On June 20, 2006, at 1430 eastern daylight time, an Allegro 2000, light sport airplane, N5024J, registered to and operated by B Bar D Aviation, Inc., as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, collided with runway 21, during touchdown at the Sanford-Lee County Regional Airport, Sanford, North Carolina. The airplane received substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a VFR flight plan was filed. The student pilot reported no injuries. The flight originated from the Siler City Municipal Airport, Siler City, North Carolina, on June 20, 2006, at 1320.
According to the student pilot, during touchdown the airplane bounced twice. He attempted to add full power to go-around, the left wing impacted the ground, and the airplane spun around 180-degrees. There were no mechanical problems reported by the student pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5024J
- Reported as
- Fantasy Air Allegro 2000
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 05-215
- Airframe hours
- 264
- Engine
- Rotax 912 ULS, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gerald Frank Chamberlain
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · May 1, 2006 · 264 hours before
- Departed
- 5W8 · Siler City, NC
- Destination
- TTA · Sanford, NC
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- TTA · Sanford-Lee County Regional, runway 21, 6,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 34 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 0 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- TTA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.