- Date
- August 11, 2024, 18:17 local (23:17 UTC)
- Place
- Whitewright, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N420DZCessna 208
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240811020699A
- Case key
- 194910
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 incomplete flare which resulted a hard, flat landing.
Findings · 1
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 she was returning to her home field for landing after performing skydiving operations. The approach was normal until she initiated the flare. During the flare, she perceived the flare was insufficient to arrest the airplane’s descent and added power. The airplane landed hard and flat, collapsing the nose landing gear. The airplane then skidded to a stop. The airplane’s fuselage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures that contributed to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N420DZ
- Reported as
- Cessna 208 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B0909
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 8,785.5
- Engine
- Honeywell TPE-331-12JR-702T, 900 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Skydive Spaceland Dallas
- Registered owner
- Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing Co Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 2, 2024 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- 48TX · Whitewright, TX
- Airport
- 48TX · Tri-County Aerodrome, runway 35, 4,500 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 14, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 1,058.2 total · 67.5 in this make and model · 956.3 as pilot in command · 336.3 in the last 90 days · 98.6 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Observed at
- KGYI, 21 nm away
- METAR
- KGYI 112350Z 11009KT 7SM CLR 32/21 A2999
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 19, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.4 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.