- Date
- April 8, 2006, 16:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Pine Creek, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3456VCessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060408005169A
- Case key
- 63580
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a 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 sustained substantial damage during a bounced landing. The pilot reported that the airplane was too high during the flare and the airplane bounced during the landing. He reported that he lost control of the airplane and the left wing impacted the terrain during the landing roll.
Factual narrative
The airplane sustained substantial damage during a bounced landing. The pilot reported that the airplane was too high during the flare and the airplane bounced during the landing. He reported that he lost control of the airplane and the left wing impacted the terrain during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3456V
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7153
- Engine
- Jacobs LGMB, 330 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard Ulmer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OWA · Owatonna, MN
- Destination
- 48Y · Pinecreek, MN
- Airport
- 48Y · Piney Pinecreek Border, runway 33
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 55 in this make and model · 1,380 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
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.