- Date
- December 13, 2000, 11:58 local (18:58 UTC)
- Place
- Broomfield, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2386CCessna R182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001213027069A
- Case key
- 50814
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Probable cause
the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the dual student, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing factors were the dual student flaring the airplane prematurely, resulting in an inadvertent stall/mush.
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 cleared to land on runway 11L. The flight instructor said that despite the wind 'shifting directions,' correct wind correction was applied and the airplane landed. During the rollout, the nose started shaking and full up elevator was applied. The propeller struck the ground and the airplane came to a halt. But according to the airplane owner who witnessed the accident, the airplane 'was too high for normal glidepath...the plane suddenly descended in a near level flight attitude from an altitude of approximately 40 feet above the runway...the plane hit in a full stalled configuration,' which drove the landing gear into the fuselage. The airplane was destroyed.
Factual narrative
On December 13, 2000, at 1158 mountain standard time, a Cessna R182, N2386C, operated by McAir Aviation, Inc., was destroyed during a hard landing at Jeffco Airport, Broomfield, Colorado. The commercial certificated flight instructor and her private certificated student were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and no flight plan had been filed for the instructional flight being operated under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated at Pueblo, Colorado, appoximately 45 minutes before the accident.
According to the accident report submitted by the flight instructor, they were cleared to land on runway 11L. Despite the wind "shifting directions," proper wind correction was applied and the airplane landed. During the rollout, the nose started shaking and full up elevator was applied. The propeller struck the ground and the airplane came to a halt.
According to the airplane owner who witnessed the accident, the airplane "was too high for normal glidepath...the plane suddenly descended in a near level flight attitude from an altitude of approximately 40 feet above the runway...the plane hit in a full stalled configuration."
Postaccident inspection revealed the airframe was extensively damaged, particularly around the cabin doors when the main landing gear was driven up into the fuselage. The airplane was subsequently declared to be a total loss.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2386C
- Reported as
- Cessna R182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200173
- Airframe hours
- 5,589
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mcair Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- R And R Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 3, 2000 · 71 hours before
- Departed
- PUB · Pueblo, CO
- Destination
- BJC
- Airport
- BJC · Jeffco, runway 11L, 9,000 × 100 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 906 total · 5 in this make and model · 729 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BJC
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 N2386C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.