- Date
- February 19, 1991, 18:47 local (Feb 20, 1991, 00:47 UTC)
- Place
- Panama City, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6136YCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910219005229A
- Case key
- 32823
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor was the pilot's lack of recent night flight experience.
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.
Nose gear collapsed
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Lack of recent experience in type operationFactor
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - inadvertent
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overload
Analysis
The pilot stated the acft porpoised after touchdown & landed hard on the nose landing gear. The pilot's log recorded no night time in the preceding 3 months.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6136Y
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21064263
- Airframe hours
- 1,819
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Men0, Frederick, J (III)
- Registered owner
- Men0, Frederick, J (III)
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 2, 1990 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- LGC · La Grange, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PFN · Panama City-Bay County, runway 14, 6,314 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,036 total · 1,351 in this make and model · 1,976 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PFN, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.