- Date
- October 9, 2021, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fruitland Park, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5797BCessna 182
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- FAA report
- 20211009017499A
- Case key
- 104096
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to establish a proper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was practicing landings on a grass runway adjacent to his home. He said that when he made his sixth landing, he landed hard, and the nose wheel fork assembly separated from the airplane. The airplane nosed over on to its back, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage, engine mounts, both wings and the vertical stabilizer.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5797B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33797
- Built
- 1956
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Missouri Stone Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 5FA1 · Flying Palomino Ranch, runway 27, 2,400 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- October 31, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 120 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- LEE, 7 nm away
- METAR
- KLEE 092153Z 36006KT 10SM CLR 31/19 A2988
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 6, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 41.6 MB in all.
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 N5797B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.