- Date
- July 8, 2000, 13:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- White Plains, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N729ADCessna 182S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 17, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000708011579A
- Case key
- 51281
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to recover from a bounced landing and her failure to perform a go-around.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot (SP) was landing on Runway 34, a 6,548 foot long, 150 foot wide, asphalt runway. After touchdown, the airplane began to bounce. The student pilot added engine power; however, she was not able to stop the bouncing and the airplane's nose gear was pushed up and back, into the engine firewall. The SP reported 125 hours of total flight experience, of which, 90 hours were in make and model.
Factual narrative
On July 8, 2000, about 1320 Eastern Daylight Time, a Cessna 182S, N729AD, was substantially damaged while landing at the Westchester County Airport (HPN), White Plains, New York. The certificated student pilot (SP) was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed for the local training flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
The airplane was landing on Runway 34, a 6,548 foot long, 150 foot wide, asphalt runway.
According to the SP, the airplane landed "flat" and "porpoised." She added engine power; however, she was not able to stop the bouncing. The airplane porpoised three times, and the nose gear was pushed up and back, into the engine firewall.
The SP stated she did not have any mechanical problems with the airplane.
Winds reported at HPN, at 1345, were from 350 degrees at 9 knots.
The SP reported 125 hours of total flight experience, of which, 90 hours were in make and model.
The Federal Aviation Administration Airplane Flying Handbook, FAA-H-8083-3, Chapter 8, "Faulty Approaches and Landings," stated in part:
"In a bounced landing that is improperly recovered, the airplane comes in nose first setting off a series of motions that imitate the jumps and dives of a porpoise-hence the name...When a porpoise is severe, the safest procedure is to EXECUTE A GO-AROUND IMMEDIATELY. No attempt to salvage the landing should be made...."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N729AD
- Reported as
- Cessna 182S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18280605
- Airframe hours
- 220
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Douglas B. Seckendorf
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HPN
- Airport
- HPN · Westchester County, runway 34, 6,548 × 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 125 total · 90 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HPN
FAA reports on this event · 1
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