- Date
- June 28, 2006, 16:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Olympia, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30328Cessna 177A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060628011869A
- Case key
- 64017
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in a hard 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
According to the pilot, as he flared and touched down, the airplane "began to porpoise, landing hard twice before [he] was able to put it down gently." He taxied to parking and then noticed that the propeller was damaged. Examination of the airplane by an FAA inspector revealed damage to the firewall.
Factual narrative
On June 28, 2006, about 1615 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 177A, N30328, sustained substantial damage during a hard landing on runway 17 at Olympia Airport, Olympia, Washington. The private pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the personal cross country flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated from Puyallup, Washington, about 1545.
According to the pilot, as he flared and touched down, the airplane "began to porpoise, landing hard twice before [he] was able to put it down gently." He taxied to parking and then noticed that the propeller was damaged. Examination of the airplane by an FAA inspector revealed damage to the firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30328
- Reported as
- Cessna 177A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17701196
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2F, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 1SO · Puyallup, WA
- Destination
- OLM · Olympia, WA
- Airport
- OLM · Olympia, runway 17
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
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 94 total · 94 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 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.