# NTSB NYC07CA156: Piper PA-34-200, N500JT, Fort Lauderdale, FL, July 2, 2007

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: July 2, 2007, 13:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place: Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Coordinates: 26.197221, -80.170555
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.1972&lon=-80.1706&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 4 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report October 31, 2007
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- Parties: FAA/FSDO
- NTSB case key (mKey): 66111
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=NYC07CA156
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/66111/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC07CA156

## Probable cause

The pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Gear collapsed, landing
  - recovery from bounced landing - inadequate, pilot in command (cause)

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N500JT-2007-12-14), registration cancelled 2007-12-14, S/N 34-7970295 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: Piper PA-34-200
- Registry model: [Piper PA-34-200T](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-34-200t) (registry code 7103406) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 34-7970295
- Engines: Teledyne Continental TSIO-360 reciprocating; Teledyne 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 27; injuries: none; 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)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB CHI85LA019](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI85LA019), Oct 18, 1984: Piper PA-34-200T (N500JT), Compton, IL, substantial damage

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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