- Date
- July 3, 2023, 13:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Suffolk, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N716MMCessna 208B
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear collapse
- 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
- 20230703014369A
- Case key
- 192554
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate landing flare, which resulted in a nose landing gear collapse.
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 pilot was returning from her fifth skydive run of the day. During the landing, “the flare seemed insufficient” and the nose landing gear collapsed during touchdown. The airplane continued off the side of the runway and came to rest in the grass. During the accident sequence, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mounts. The operator reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N716MM
- Reported as
- Cessna 208B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B0746
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 9,519
- Engine
- Honeywell TPE331-12JR, 900 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Skydiving · Part 91
- Operator
- Arne Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Arne Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 22, 2023
- Airport
- SFQ · Suffolk Exec, runway 25, 3,750 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 8, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 1,693 total · 37 in this make and model · 859 as pilot in command · 102 in the last 90 days · 52 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- SFQ
- METAR
- 031755Z AUTO 25006KT 10SM SCT046 SCT055 35/22 A2993 RMK AO2 T03470223 10349 20272
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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 N716MM · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.