- Date
- March 18, 2015, 11:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Vernon, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N566FDFlight Design Ctls
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 1, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20150318002769A
- Case key
- 90916
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of control.
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 solo student pilot was on a local flight to practice touch and go landings in a light sport airplane. During the second landing attempt, the airplane touched down hard on the runway and bounced. The airplane bounced again before the pilot initiated a go around. As the pilot added power, the airplane descended nose first into the runway. The postaccident inspection of the airplane revealed that the airplane sustained substantial damage to firewall and fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane prior to the accident that would have precluded normal operation of the airplane.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot was on a local flight to practice touch and go landings in a light sport airplane. During the second landing attempt, the airplane touched down hard on the runway and bounced. Then bounced again before the pilot initiated a go around. As the pilot added power, the airplane descended nose first into the runway, and the nose gear collapsed. The postaccident inspection of the airplane revealed that the airplane sustained substantial damage to firewall and fuselage. The pilot reported there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane prior to the accident that would have precluded normal operation of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N566FD
- Reported as
- Flight Design Ctls
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 08-03-06
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 2,576
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- New Flyers Association
- Registered owner
- B S Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 2, 2015
- Departed
- KOSU · Columbus, OH
- Destination
- 4I3 · Mount Vernon, OH
- Airport
- 4I3 · Knox County, runway 28, 5,498 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, Airframe parachute, Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, Onboard weather, Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 32.2 total · 28.1 in this make and model · 4.8 as pilot in command · 32.2 in the last 90 days · 20.2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.30 inHg
- Observed at
- K4I3
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 20, 2015, 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 N566FD · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.