- Date
- October 24, 2019, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Apopka, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N639BVCostruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2004
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20191024024039A
- Case key
- 100619
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing and subsequent nose-over.
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 solo student pilot reported that, while conducting a touch-and-go landing, the airplane was 5 to 10 knots faster than normal during the landing and had little to no flare. The airplane touched down hard on the runway, bounced, and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and vertical stabilizer. The student reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that, while conducting a touch-and-go landing, the airplane was 5 to 10 knots faster than normal during the landing and had little to no flare. The airplane touched down hard on the runway, bounced and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and vertical stabilizer. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N639BV
- Reported as
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2004 (BRAVO)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 115
- Built
- 2007
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Adam Valencic
- Registered owner
- Adam Valencic
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Departed
- X04 · Apopka, FL
- Destination
- X04 · Apopka, FL
- Airport
- X04 · Orlando Apopka, runway 33, 3,987 × 60 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 24
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KLEE, 14 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 4, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 17.7 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.