- Date
- July 30, 2019, 09:55 local (14:55 UTC)
- Place
- Cloquet, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N353KTCirrus SR22
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 2, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190730012939A
- Case key
- 99977
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper 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, while landing, the airplane bounced twice on touchdown. During the second bounce, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane then impacted the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount and firewall. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that, while landing, the airplane bounced on touchdown. During a second bounce, the nose gear collapsed, and subsequently the airplane impacted with the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount and 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 the time of the accident, the wind was from 310° at 6 knots. The pilot was landing the airplane on runway 35.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N353KT
- Reported as
- Cirrus SR22 (Undesignat)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0486
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 1,804.9
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-N7, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Duluth Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Monaco Aviation Llc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 8, 2019
- Departed
- DLH · Duluth, MN
- Destination
- DLH · Duluth, MN
- Airport
- COQ · Cloquet Carlton County, runway 35, 4,002 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 12, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 421 total · 13 in this make and model · 421 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 3.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- KCOQ
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 3, 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.