- Date
- June 8, 2022, 19:15 local (Jun 9, 2022, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Greenbrier, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N53705Cessna 337G
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220608009779A
- Case key
- 105259
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 bounced landing and the nose landing gear collapsing.
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 reported that while landing, the airplane touched down on the main landing gear and then bounced. On the second bounce, the nose landing gear collapsed, the left main landing gear collapsed, and the left wing impacted the ground. The airplane departed the runway and came to a stop in the grass. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53705
- Reported as
- Cessna 337G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33701796
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 4,336
- Engines
- Continental IO-3601-G, 210 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-360-G, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Southern Air Service Inc
- Registered owner
- Southern Air Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2021
- Departed
- CHT · Chillicothe, MO
- Destination
- 12A · Greenbrier, AR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 12A · Arkavalley, runway 18, 3,133 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Satellite tracking device
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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- May 5, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 398 total · 106 in this make and model · 398 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 8 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- KCCA, 26 nm away
- METAR
- KCCA 082335Z AUTO 30008G17KT 10SM FEW017 22/20 A2988 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 29, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.