- Date
- March 6, 2014, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N108WADiamond Aircraft Ind DA 20
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report April 1, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Cleveland FSDO
- FAA report
- 20140306001279A
- Case key
- 88896
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of control and impact with terrain.
Findings · 5
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 solo student pilot reported that he was attempting to make a full stop landing. He attempted to land twice before, but bounced both landing attempts, and ultimately executed go-arounds each time. He reported that during the third attempted landing, he bounced the landing and attempted another go-around, but "could not recover." The airplane veered off the left side of the runway and impacted a distance marker, a stop sign, and a pile of rocks, which resulted in substantial damage to the wings.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that he was attempting to make a full stop landing. He attempted to land twice before, but bounced both landing attempts, and ultimately executed go-arounds each time. He reported that during the third attempted landing, he bounced the landing and attempted another go-around, but "could not recover." The airplane veered off the left side of the runway and impacted a distance marker, a stop sign, and a pile of rocks, which resulted in substantial damage to the wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N108WA
- Reported as
- Diamond Aircraft Ind DA 20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- C0098
- Built
- 2000
- Airframe hours
- 5,103
- Engine
- Continental IO-240, 130 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Premier Fligth Academy
- Registered owner
- Lake Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 20, 2014 · 13.8 hours before
- Departed
- BKL · Cleveland, OH
- Destination
- BKL · Cleveland, OH
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- BKL · Burke Lakefront Airport, runway 6L, 6,000 × 150 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 12.1 total · 7.3 in this make and model · 0.4 as pilot in command · 6.1 in the last 90 days · 1.7 in the last 30 days · 1.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- BKL
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 14, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.9 MB 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.