- Date
- August 13, 1990, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fishers, IN
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8060ZCessna U206A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900813033479A
- Case key
- 14750
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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command's failure to accomplish a recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in a porpoise and collapse of the nose gear.
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 pilot allowed the aircraft to gain speed on final while correcting for being too high on glide path. The aircraft ballooned on round-out for flare and the aircraft landed hard and porpoised. The second touchdown was on the nose gear and collapsed the gear. The aircraft received substantail damage, however the pilot and his three passengers reported no injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8060Z
- Reported as
- Cessna U206A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U206-0460
- Airframe hours
- 3,143
- Engine
- Teledyne Cont IO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Strawbridge, Robert A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 18, 1990 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- C03 · Nappannee, IN
- Airport
- 4I8 · Indianapolis Metropolitan, runway 32, 3,860 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 171 total · 18 in this make and model · 171 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 10 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.
Other investigations on N8060Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.