- Date
- July 10, 2007, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Montpelier, VT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9890HCessna 182R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 30, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20070710832079A
- Case key
- 66162
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and subsequent hard 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 pilot landed long on runway 35. He decided to abort the landing and went around. The second landing was "hard," and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall, landing gear, and propeller.
Factual narrative
The pilot told an FAA inspector that he landed long on runway 35. He decided to abort the landing and went around. The second landing was "hard," and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall, landing gear, and propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9890H
- Reported as
- Cessna 182R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18268094
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-L3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fredrick A. Heim
- Registered owner
- Frederic A. Heim
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Montpelier, VT
- Airport
- MPV · Edward F Knapp State, runway 35, 5,002 × 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
- 80
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,200 total · 25 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MPV
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.