- Date
- June 5, 1991, 09:04 local (16:04 UTC)
- Place
- Lincoln, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2489XCessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910605020169A
- Case key
- 27235
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Probable cause
That the pilot-in-command improperly flared the airplane by misjudging the altitude and improper recovery from the bounced landing.
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 owner pilot's medical certificate had expired and requested the certificated private pilot passenger to accompany her on the accident flight. During the landing at Lincoln airport the owner pilot misjudged the flare altitude, landed hard, bounced and began to porpoise until the nose gear collapsed. The PIC failed to properly recover from the bounced landing. The certificated private pilot/passenger reported that he was not checked out in the airplane and would not assume the pic's responsibilities.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2489X
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18256389
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Helen Tabor Martin
- Registered owner
- Helen Tabor Martin
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- OVE · Oroville, CA
- Airport
- 051 · Lincoln, runway 33, 6,000 × 100 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 965 total · 650 in this make and model · 720 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.