- Date
- October 7, 1990, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N70892Cessna 182M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901007044459A
- Case key
- 27040
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to properly recover from the bounced landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of familiarity with the airplane.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot intended to remain in the traffic pattern in order to practice takeoffs and full stop landings at the airport. On the first landing the pilot misjudged the flare altitude- he began the flare at about 30 feet above the ground. The airplane landed hard and bounced. The pilot failed to properly recover from the bounced landing and the airplane continued to porpoise serveral times until coming to a stop. The pilot accrued only 2.9 flight hours in the accident airplane and the accident flight was the first time the pilot flew the airplane without an instructor. The pilot received 2.6 hours of flight instruction about 6 weeks before the accident and had not flown any airplane since receiving the instruction until the accident flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70892
- Reported as
- Cessna 182M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259410
- Airframe hours
- 1,875
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1989 · 12 hours before
- Airport
- L45 · Bakersfield, runway 31, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 129 total · 3 in this make and model · 65 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Observed at
- BFL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.