- Date
- June 8, 2009, 09:50 local (16:50 UTC)
- Place
- Shafter, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N61907Cessna 182T
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 73983
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper landing flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
During the landing flare, the airplane touched down, bounced, and began to porpoise. The student pilot stated that her reaction was too slow and the propeller struck the runway, resulting in damage to the engine firewall.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that during the landing flare, the airplane touched down, bounced, and began to porpoise. The pilot stated that her reaction was too slow and the propeller struck the runway, resulting in damage to the engine firewall. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61907
- Reported as
- Cessna 182T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T18208861
- Airframe hours
- 428
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 8, 2009 · 59 hours before
- Departed
- KVIS · Visalia, CA
- Destination
- KMIT · Shafter, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- KMIT · Shafter-Minter Field Airport, runway 30, 4,500 × 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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 109 total · 109 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KBFL, 13 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 10, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 645 KB in all.