- Date
- July 10, 2016, 10:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kahului, HI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N335SPCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 5, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160710014549A
- Case key
- 93975
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Probable cause
The pilot's incorrect pitch control during the landing flare, which resulted in a porpoise and hard landing.
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 reported that during the landing touchdown, there were "two small bounces" and then the airplane bounced a third time "hard." The pilot further reported that he was able to taxi the airplane onto a taxiway and subsequently shutdown the engine. The firewall sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing touchdown, there were "two small bounces" and then the airplane bounced a third time "hard." The pilot further reported that he was able to taxi the airplane onto a taxiway and subsequently shutdown the engine. The firewall sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N335SP
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (S)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9495
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 5,470
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Maui Aviators LLC
- Registered owner
- Maui Aviators LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 29, 2016
- Departed
- OGG · Kahului, HI
- Destination
- OGG · Kahului, HI
- Airport
- OGG · Kahului, runway 05, 4,990 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, 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
- 84
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,100 total · 450 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- PHOG
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 31, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 116 KB 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 N335SP · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.