- Date
- August 23, 2022, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lee's Summit, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1462JRockwell International 112A
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- 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 / Kansas City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220823021159A
- Case key
- 106861
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing and the nose landing gear collapse.
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, during landing, the airplane “bounced”; however, he felt that he had “full control of the glide for the rest of the landing”. The airplane bounced again after which the propeller struck the ground and the nose landing gear collapsed when the airplane stopped. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the forward fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1462J
- Reported as
- Rockwell International 112A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1462L
- Built
- 1976
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360 SER, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KSQI · Rock Falls, IL
- Destination
- KLXT · Lees Summit, MO
- Airport
- KLXT · Lee's Summit Municipal Airport, runway 18/36, 5,501 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 84
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 19, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 418 total · 76 in this make and model · 85 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Observed at
- KLXT
- METAR
- METAR KLXT 232153Z AUTO 06006KT 10SM CLR 28/16 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP147 T02780156=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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.
Other investigations on N1462J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.