- Date
- June 21, 2019, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grotten, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N727HGCirrus SR22
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 6, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190621007699A
- Case key
- 99739
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare and failure to maintain pitch control, which resulted in a porpoised 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 pilot reported that, while landing with gusting winds, the airplane porpoised on touchdown, so he chose to go around and "shoot the approach again." During the second landing, the airplane porpoised on touchdown. The pilot regained control of the airplane and taxied to the ramp without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The airport's automated weather observation station reported that, about 26 minutes after the accident, the wind was from 360° at 5 knots. The pilot reported that the wind was from 020° at 8 knots, gusting to 14 knots. The pilot was landing the airplane on runway 5.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that, while landing in gusting winds, the airplane porpoised on touchdown. The pilot chose to go-around and "shoot the approach again." During the second landing, the airplane porpoised on touchdown. The pilot regained control of the airplane and taxied to the ramp without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The airport's automated weather observation station reported that, about 26 minutes after the accident, the wind was from 360° at 5 knots. The pilot reported that the wind was from 020° at 8 knots, gusting to 14 knots. The airplane was landing on runway 5.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N727HG
- Reported as
- Cirrus SR22 (Undesignat)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4489
- Built
- 2017
- Airframe hours
- 882.9
- Engine
- Continental IO 550K, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Performance Flight
- Registered owner
- Hannibal Aviation Llc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 18, 2019
- Departed
- HPN · White Plains, NY
- Destination
- GON · Grotten, CT
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GON · Groton-New London, runway 05, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Airframe parachute, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- 48
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 26, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 180 total · 80 in this make and model · 104 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.52 inHg
- Observed at
- KGON
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 9, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.6 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.