- Date
- July 2, 2007, 13:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N500JTPiper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 66111
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate 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
The pilot of the Piper PA34-200 described the flight as "uneventful," and the performance of the airplane as "fine" and "normal." At touchdown on runway 26, the airplane "bounced a little bit" and then "porpoised." The pilot said that the porpoising "got worse before it got better" and that the bounced landing drove the nose landing gear through the top of the nose enclosure, and ejected both windscreens from their mounts.
Factual narrative
The pilot of the Piper PA34-200 described the flight as "uneventful," and the performance of the airplane as "fine" and "normal." At touchdown on runway 26, the airplane "bounced a little bit" and then "porpoised." The pilot said that the porpoising "got worse before it got better" and that the bounced landing drove the nose landing gear through the top of the nose enclosure, and ejected both windscreens from their mounts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N500JT
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7970295
- Engines
- Teledyne Continental TSIO-360, reciprocatingTeledyne Continental TSIO-360, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Skymax Aviation, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Destination
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale Executive, runway 26, 6,001 × 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
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 100 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- FXE
Other investigations on N500JT · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.