- Date
- July 12, 2009, 07:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Erie, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N408RARemos Remos G-3/
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration FSDO
- FAA report
- 20090712014849A
- Case key
- 74261
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing and the flight instructor's delayed reaction to take control and recover.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pre-solo student pilot bounced the airplane on touchdown during a dual instructional training flight. The certified flight instructor (CFI)called for a go-around and the student pilot added full power. The student pilot stalled the airplane and it bounced again. At this time the CFI took the controls and attempted to continue the go-around. The airplane would not accelerate and drifted to the right of the runway and into the grass. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot and CFI were not injured. There were no known mechanical or flight control anomalies noted prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
The pre-solo student pilot bounced the airplane on touchdown during a dual instructional training flight. The certified flight instructor called for a go around and the student pilot added full power. The student pilot stalled the airplane and it bounced again. At this time the certified flight instructor took the controls and attempted to continue the go around. The airplane would not accelerate and slowing drifted to the right of the runway and into the grass. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot and certified flight instructor were not injured. There were no known mechanical or flight control anomalies noted prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N408RA
- Reported as
- Remos Remos G-3/
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 237
- Airframe hours
- 375
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skyraider Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Skyraider Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 30, 2009
- Departed
- KEIK · Erie, CO
- Destination
- KEIK · Erie, CO
- Airport
- KEIK · Erie Municipal Airport, runway 15, 4,700 × 60 ft, concrete
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 28, 2008
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 15 in this make and model · 5,800 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8 total · 8 in this make and model · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.25 inHg
- Observed at
- KBJC, 7 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 2, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 468 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.