- Date
- August 25, 2022, 13:12 local (17:12 UTC)
- Place
- Kissimmee, FL · Runway 15 Just Prior to Taxiway Bravo
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9968FCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- Parties
- FAA / FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220825015079A
- Case key
- 105803
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in the nose landing gear impacting the runway.
Findings · 2
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 private pilot reported that, during landing, the airplane “bounced three times.” Following the third bounce the “nose wheel hit the runway in an abrupt manner.” This impact resulted in substantial damage to the forward fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9968F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280208
- Built
- 1997
- Airframe hours
- 8,473.6
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Buiqui Aerospace Corp.
- Registered owner
- Southeast Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 26, 2022 · 72.9 hours before
- Departed
- APF · Naples, FL
- Destination
- ISM · Kissimmee, FL
- Airport
- ISM · Kissimmee Gateway, runway 15, 6,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 10, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 78 total · 78 in this make and model · 5.6 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 4.1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Age
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- ISM
- METAR
- KISM 251656Z 20007KT 10SM CLR 32/23 A3006 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT E SLP179 T03220233 PNO $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.0 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 N9968F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.