- Date
- March 21, 1995, 13:21 local (18:21 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N759LHCessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 19, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950321004899A
- Case key
- 37742
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's improper landing touchdown and improper recovery from a 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
During landing the aircraft touched down on the main landing gear and the nose landing gear touched down hard. The aircraft bounced into the air and then landed hard on the nose landing gear. The nose landing gear collapsed and the aircraft skidded off the runway and came to rest.
Factual narrative
On March 21, 1995, about 1321 eastern standard time, a Cessna 182Q, N759LH, registered to Catawba Valley Air Inc., sustained collapse of the nose landing gear during landing at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 personnel flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft sustained substantial damage and the private-rated pilot and two passengers were not injured. The flight originated from Fort Myers, Florida, on March 21, 1995, about 1200.
The pilot stated during landing the aircraft touched down on the main landing gear. The nose landing gear touched down hard and the aircraft bounced into the air. The aircraft then touched down on the nose landing gear and it collapsed. The aircraft then skidded off the side of the runway and came to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N759LH
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266075
- Airframe hours
- 1,961
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Catawba Valley Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 15, 1995 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- RSW · Fort Myers, FL
- Airport
- FLL · Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, runway 9R, 5,276 × 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
- 21
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 19 in this make and model · 39 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 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.
Other investigations on N759LH · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.