- Date
- June 13, 2015, 11:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Westminster, MD
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1248SCessna 182P
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Baltimore FSDO (FAA)
- FAA report
- 20150613009579A
- Case key
- 91452
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's delayed remedial action during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and porpoise.
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 flight instructor and student pilot were conducting practice takeoffs and landings while remaining in the airport traffic pattern. During the third landing, with the student pilot at the flight controls, the nose wheel impacted the runway and the airplane porpoised. The flight instructor assumed control of the airplane, landed, and taxied off of the runway. After clearing the runway, the accident airplane received a transmission over the airport's common traffic advisory frequency that the propeller had impacted the runway during the porpoise. The flight instructor stated there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the fuselage and engine firewall.
Factual narrative
The flight instructor and student pilot were conducting practice takeoffs and landings while remaining in the airport traffic pattern. During the third landing, with the student pilot at the flight controls, the nose wheel impacted the runway and the airplane porpoised. The flight instructor assumed control of the airplane, landed, and taxied off of the runway. After clearing the runway, the accident airplane received a transmission over the airport's common traffic advisory frequency that the propeller had impacted the runway during the porpoise. The flight instructor stated there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the fuselage and engine firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1248S
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18264817
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 4,455
- Engine
- Cont-Motor O-470 S1B, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cote Orphan LLC
- Registered owner
- Cote Orphan LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 22, 2014
- Departed
- DMW · Westminster, MD
- Destination
- DMW · Westminster, MD
- Airport
- DMW · Carroll County Rgnl/Jack B Poa, runway 34, 5,100 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 57 total · 54 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 8, 2015
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,610 total · 78 in this make and model · 4,472 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KDMW
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 23, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.2 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.