- Date
- September 14, 2014, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fremont, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N710DMStanley Arthur Freeman Zodiac 601XL
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-Lincoln FSDO
- FAA report
- 20140914017919A
- Case key
- 90132
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 pilot's improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 3
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 reported that during the landing flare, he over-controlled and the airplane climbed. He then pushed forward on the elevator control and over-corrected. He said that before he knew it he was porpoising and the airplane landed hard. He stated that there were no mechanical problems with the airplane prior to the event. The airplane incurred damage to the firewall.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing flare, he over-controlled and the airplane climbed. He then pushed forward on the elevator control and over-corrected. He said that before he knew it he was porpoising and the airplane landed hard. He stated that there were no mechanical problems with the airplane prior to the event. The airplane incurred damage to the firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N710DM
- Reported as
- Stanley Arthur Freeman Zodiac 601XL (XL)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 5636
- Built
- 2013
- Airframe hours
- 22
- Engine
- General Motors Corvair, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · September 13, 2014
- Departed
- FET · Fremont, NE
- Destination
- FET · Fremont, NE
- Airport
- FET · Fremont Muni, runway 14, 6,353 × 100 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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- September 11, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 399.2 total · 13.1 in this make and model · 332.7 as pilot in command · 10.5 in the last 90 days · 6.5 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- FET
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 14, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 951 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.