- Date
- September 16, 1989, 20:43 local (Sep 17, 1989, 00:43 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Myers, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8371HPiper PA-34-220T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890916035189A
- Case key
- 32505
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing. Darkness was a related factor.
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
During a landing at night, the acft bounced & subsequently touched down hard. The plt rprtd that during the occurrence, the nose tire blew out & both props contacted the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8371H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-220T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-8133060
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-KB, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Zink, William W.
- Departed
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- FMY · Page Field, runway 31, 4,997 × 150 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 600 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- FMY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8371H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.