- Date
- March 30, 1989, 09:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place
- Tacoma, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2936CCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890330005019A
- Case key
- 40989
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from the bounced landing. Contributing factors were the pilot's low total flight time and his inexperience in the Cessna 180 airplane.
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 was making multiple touch and go landings. During his fourth touch down, a hard bounced landing occurred. The aircraft then touched down on the runway in a right wing & nose low attitude, collapsing the right main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2936C
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30836
- Airframe hours
- 7,275
- Engine
- Continental O-470-1C, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald A. Winkelman
- Registered owner
- Donald A Winkelman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 28, 1989 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- TIW · Tacoma Narrows, runway 17, 5,002 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 72 total · 6 in this make and model · 28 as pilot in command · 72 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2936C · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.