- Date
- September 7, 2013, 19:00 local (Sep 8, 2013, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eugene, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30265Cessna E162
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20130907017859A
- Case key
- 88118
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare that resulted in a bounced landing.
Findings · 2
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 reported that while on final, the approach was stable, and that on short final he leveled the airplane and flared for landing. The airplane touched down, bounced back into the air, and when it touched down again, it impacted the runway in a nose down attitude. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that while on final, the approach was stable, and that on short final he leveled the airplane and flared for landing. The airplane touched down, bounced back into the air, and when it touched down again, it impacted the runway in a nose down attitude. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30265
- Reported as
- Cessna E162 (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16200093
- Built
- 2011
- Airframe hours
- 783
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-200-D1B, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hillsboro Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Hillsboro Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 23, 2013 · 81 hours before
- Departed
- RBG · Roseburg, OR
- Destination
- EUG · Eugene, OR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- EUG · Mahlon Sweet Field, runway 34L, 8,009 × 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
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 29, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 286 total · 20 in this make and model · 93 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 10° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KEUG
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 13, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 404 KB 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.