- Date
- November 19, 2006, 10:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N531XLLiberty Aerospace Liberty XL-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 26, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20061119022999A
- Case key
- 64891
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Probable cause
the student pilot's improper flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced landing resulting in an inadvertent loss of control.
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
According to the student pilot, she was conducting touch and go landings on runway 22. On the third landing, she landed hard and ballooned back up into the air. She stated that the airplane impacted the runway two times following the first impact, the third being the hardest, resulting in substantial damage. An examination of the airplanes systems revealed no anomalies.
Factual narrative
According to the student pilot, she was conducting touch and go landings on runway 22 (7,400 feet by 100 feet, asphalt). On the third landing, she landed hard and ballooned back up into the air. She stated that the airplane impacted the runway two times following the first impact, the third being the hardest. The propeller struck the runway and the nose wheel assembly folded aft, breaking the weld and mount area in the forward bulkhead. The student pilot sustained a compression fracture in her back. An examination of the airplanes systems, conducted by the FAA, revealed no anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N531XL
- Reported as
- Liberty Aerospace Liberty XL-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0025
- Airframe hours
- 192
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental IOF-240-B, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2006
- Departed
- AEG · Albuquerque, NM
- Destination
- AEG · Albuquerque, NM
- Airport
- AEG · Double Eagle II, runway 22, 7,400 × 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 49
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.51 inHg
- Observed at
- KAEG, 1 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.