- Date
- October 14, 2005, 10:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hanover, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5227XCessna U206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Belleville, MI FSDO
- FAA report
- 20051014032279A
- Case key
- 62785
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged the landing flare which resulted in the bounced landing and subsequent overload failure of the nose landing gear wheel. A factor associated with the accident was the grass airstrip.
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 nosed over following a bounced landing. The pilot stated the airplane bounced while landing on a private grass airstrip. He stated he was unaware that the nose gear casting broke during the bounced landing. The pilot recovered from the bounced landing and when the airplane touched down again, the nose gear strut dug into the grass and the airplane nosed over.
Factual narrative
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Aircraft
- Registration
- N5227X
- Reported as
- Cessna U206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20605601
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Forest A. Owen
- Registered owner
- Dorothy Dawson Food Products, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- JXN · Jackson, MI
- Destination
- Hanover, MI
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 943 total · 95 in this make and model · 857 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.