- Date
- October 16, 2005, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Punta Gorda, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3588FCessna 182J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20051016027659A
- Case key
- 62697
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate remedial action following an encounter with wind gusts during the landing flare resulting in a hard landing and damage to the nose landing gear.
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 stated that after flying 40 minutes he elected to return to the departure airport with a planned landing on runway 03. The winds at the time were reported to be from 010 degrees to 040 degrees at 9 knots, gusting to 14 knots. During the flare for landing just before touchdown, a gust of wind, "lifted me back in the air then slammed me back to the runway." As a result of the firm landing, the nose landing gear was bent to the left. He taxied the airplane off the runway onto the grass.
Factual narrative
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Aircraft
- Registration
- N3588F
- Reported as
- Cessna 182J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18257588
- Engine
- Continental O-470R, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- David C. De Carle
- Registered owner
- PGD Flyers LLC.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KPGD · Punta Gorda, FL
- Destination
- KPGD · Punta Gorda, FL
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- KPGD · Punta Gorda, runway 3, 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
- 78
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 19,000 total · 180 in this make and model · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.