- Date
- July 23, 2013, 22:30 local (Jul 24, 2013, 03:30 UTC)
- Place
- Steamboat Springs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5467CCessna 182S
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20130723021239A
- Case key
- 87573
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Probable cause
The pilot's delay in reacting to the adverse wind conditions.
Findings · 2
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 pilot made two uneventful night full-stop landings, noting "swirling winds" on final approach that were "strange" but had "no considerable impact." As he flared for the third landing, the airplane "went nose down in a quick motion." He heard the nose gear strut collapse so he added power and made a go-around. He then landed uneventfully. Post-accident examination revealed the firewall and related structural components had been bent. There were also 1/6-inch nicks on two of the three propeller blade tips. According to the airport's AWOS (Automated Weather Observing System), the wind was calm at the time of the accident.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot's written statement, he had made two uneventful night full-stop landings, noting "swirling winds" on final approach that were "strange" but had "no considerable impact." As he flared for the third landing, the airplane "went nose down in a quick motion." He heard the nose gear strut collapse so he added power and made a go-around. He then landed uneventfully. Post-accident examination revealed the firewall and related structural components had been bent. There were also 1/6-inch nicks on 2 of the 3 propeller blade tips. According to the airport's AWOS (Automated Weather Observing System), the wind was calm at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5467C
- Reported as
- Cessna 182S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18280230
- Airframe hours
- 2,491
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Steamboat Springs Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Steamboat Springs Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 22, 2013 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- KSBS · Steamboat Springs, CO
- Destination
- KSBS · Steamboat Springs, CO
- Airport
- KSBS · Bob Adams Field, runway 32, 4,452 × 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 22, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 140 total · 40 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KSBS
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 22, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 611 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.
Other investigations on N5467C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.