- Date
- May 7, 2018, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Naples, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N699ZAZenair CH 2000
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180507024209A
- Case key
- 97204
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.
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 reported that, during landing, the airplane bounced. She added that she was surprised and attempted to correct by getting back into ground effect, but the airplane bounced a again. During the third bounce, the propeller struck the runway, and the nose landing gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and engine mounts. The automated weather observation station located on the airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 280° at 13 knots. The airplane landed on runway 23.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that, during landing, the airplane bounced. She added that she was surprised and attempted to correct by getting back into ground effect, but the airplane bounced a second time. During the third bounce, the propeller struck the runway and the nose landing gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and engine mounts. The automated weather observation station located on the airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 280° at 13 knots. The airplane landed on runway 23.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N699ZA
- Reported as
- Zenair CH 2000 (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-0064
- Built
- 2002
- Airframe hours
- 2,552
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 116 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 7, 2018
- Departed
- IMM · Immokalee, FL
- Destination
- APF · Naples, FL
- Airport
- APF · Naples Muni, runway 23, 6,600 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 18
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 124.5 total · 107.6 in this make and model · 24.6 as pilot in command · 124.5 in the last 90 days · 124.5 in the last 30 days · 124.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- KAPF
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 8, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.1 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.