- Date
- October 5, 2016, 12:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kapolei, HI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N429ESCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 18, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20161005016219A
- Case key
- 94221
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Probable cause
The pilot’s use of an excessive pitch attitude during the landing flare, which resulted in a bounced 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 flare he pitched up "higher than what is normal" and the airplane bounced three times during the touchdown. The pilot further reported that he was able to taxi the airplane to the ramp, but he noticed the nose wheel was flat. During a 100-hour maintenance inspection conducted a week later, it was revealed that the firewall sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing flare he pitched up "higher than what is normal" and the airplane bounced three times during the touchdown. The pilot further reported that he was able to taxi the airplane to the ramp, but he noticed the nose wheel was flat. During a 100-hour maintenance inspection conducted a week later, it was revealed that the firewall sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N429ES
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280296
- Built
- 1997
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360 SER, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 12, 2016
- Departed
- LIH · Lihue, HI
- Destination
- JRF · Kapolei, HI
- Airport
- JRF · Kalaeloa (John Rodgers Field), runway 04L, 4,500 × 200 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 31, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,034 total · 39 in this make and model · 1,302 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- PHNL, 8 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 5, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.1 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 N429ES · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.