- Date
- April 22, 2006, 16:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tooele, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8503JZenair CH 2000
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060422006909A
- Case key
- 63659
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the student pilot during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing. A contributing factor was the student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing flare.
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
According to the flight instructor, the airplane touched down on the main landing gear and bounced. He added "power to help soften the landing," and at this point, the student "released his grip on the flight controls, causing the nose of the aircraft to pitch up dramatically. Almost immediately after the initial upward pitch, the aircraft dropped down hard on the nose wheel, which broke off." The airplane slid off the right side of the runway, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to a stop nose down. An FAA inspector examined the airplane and reported that the firewall was damaged.
Factual narrative
On April 22, 2006, about 1600 mountain daylight time, a Zenair CH 2000 airplane, N8503J, sustained substantial damage during a hard landing on runway 35 at Bolinder Field - Tooele Valley Airport, Tooele, Utah. The flight instructor and the student pilot were not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. The flight departed Salt Lake City International Airport about 1510 with an intended destination of Tooele.
According to the flight instructor, the airplane touched down on the main landing gear and bounced. He added "power to help soften the landing," and at this point, the student "released his grip on the flight controls, causing the nose of the aircraft to pitch up dramatically. Almost immediately after the initial upward pitch, the aircraft dropped down hard on the nose wheel, which broke off." The airplane slid off the right side of the runway, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to a stop nose down. An FAA inspector examined the airplane and reported that the firewall was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8503J
- Reported as
- Zenair CH 2000
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-0063
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Salt Lake Community College
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- SLC · Salt Lake City, UT
- Destination
- TVY · Tooele, UT
- Airport
- TVY · Bolinder Field - Tooele Valley, runway 35
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 395 total · 237 in this make and model · 23 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 12 total · 12 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.