- Date
- May 8, 2021, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- San Bernardino, CA · Airport, runway 6 at SBD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N54PWCessna 182Q
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210508008229A
- Case key
- 103055
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and his subsequent inadequate pitch and airplane control during a go around which resulted in a nose landing gear collapse.
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 reported that he was landing the airplane while in the right seat for the first time. During touchdown, the airplane landed hard and ballooned. The pilot then initiated a go-around and as he increased the engine power with his left hand, he also pushed forward on the control yoke with his right hand. Subsequently, the airplane landed hard again, the nose landing gear separated, and the fuselage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54PW
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266804
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 3,635.3
- Engine
- Continental O-470-50, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lee A. Scheffers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 2020 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- KRAL · Riverside, CA
- Destination
- KSBD · San Bernardino, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SBD · San Bernardino Intl, runway 06, 10,000 × 200 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot
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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 20, 2020
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 462 total · 344 in this make and model · 462 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KSBD
- METAR
- KSBD 081958Z 25006KT 10SM CLR 25/08 A2998
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 4, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.