- Date
- May 8, 2012, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grangeville, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N207YHCessna 207A
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 18, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20120508007639A
- Case key
- 83556
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of airplane control.
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
The pilot said that the airplane landed on all three wheels and bounced back into the air. The airplane stalled, impacted the runway, and bounced into the air again. The airplane then landed on its nosewheel, which resulted in a broken wheel and a flat tire. The airplane then slid off the left side of the runway, where the left wing contacted the ground and sustained substantial damage.
Factual narrative
The pilot said the airplane landed on all three wheels and bounced back into the air. The airplane stalled, impacted the runway, and bounced into the air again. The airplane then landed on its nose wheel resulting in a broken wheel and flat tire. The airplane slid off the left side of the runway, and the left wing contacted terrain and sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N207YH
- Reported as
- Cessna 207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700637
- Airframe hours
- 4,781
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Inter-State Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Inter-State Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 17, 2012
- Departed
- LWS · Lewiston, ID
- Destination
- GIC · Grangeville, ID
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- GIC · Idaho County Airport, runway 07, 5,101 × 75 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
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 29, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,010 total · 296 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- LWS, 45 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 24, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.