- Date
- August 15, 2004, 09:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eastport, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N537CRCessna 182S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20040815021559A
- Case key
- 60177
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudging the landing flare resulting in the hard landing and his unsuccessful remedial action following the bounced landing.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The airplane was damaged during landing. The pilot stated that the airplane bounced during landing and struck a small depression in the turf runway when it came back down. The nose landing gear was separated from the airplane. The airplane came to rest on the engine cowling.
Factual narrative
On August 15, 2004, about 0900 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 182S, N537CR, piloted by a private pilot, sustained substantial damage when the nose landing gear collapsed during landing on runway 27 (3,300 feet by 100 feet, turf), at the Torchport Airport, Eastport, Michigan. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The pilot and two passengers were not injured. The flight originated from Grosse Isle, Michigan about 0700.
In a written statement, the pilot stated that during landing, the airplane settled to the ground and then bounced about 2 feet into the air. He stated that airplane came back down and the nose wheel impacted a small depression in the airstrip. He said that he held the nose off of the ground for about another 60 to 100 yards before the airplane settled onto the engine cowl.
The airplane sustained damage to the propeller, engine, engine mount, firewall and fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N537CR
- Reported as
- Cessna 182S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18280942
- Airframe hours
- 564
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carl E. Rigg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 2004 · 73 hours before
- Departed
- ONZ · Grosse Isle, MI
- Destination
- 59M · Eastport, MI
- Airport
- 59M · Torchport, runway 27, 3,300 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 1, 2003
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,075 total · 580 in this make and model · 35 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.31 inHg
- Observed at
- KTVC, 21 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.