- Date
- May 31, 2021, 08:34 local (15:34 UTC)
- Place
- Carlsbad, CA · Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47UPCessna 182
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- 20210531007229A
- Case key
- 103190
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 student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing and subsequent loss of directional control.
Findings · 4
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 solo student pilot reported that, during the approach for landing, she was slightly low and added power before touchdown. When the airplane touched down, it bounced, and she increased engine power. The airplane subsequently veered to the left. She then applied right rudder control, but the airplane exited the runway to the left and impacted runway signs. The engine mounts were substantially damaged. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47UP
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (P)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 182649594
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 1,362.3
- Engine
- Continental D-470-S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Superfast Skylane, LLC
- Registered owner
- Superfast Skylane, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 15, 2021 · 14.4 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CRQ · Mc Clellan-Palomar, runway 24, 4,897 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 32 total · 7.3 in this make and model · 0.3 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 14.1 in the last 30 days · 0.9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KCRQ
- METAR
- KCRQ 311453Z 00000KT 6SM HZ OVC012 15/12 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP145 T01500117 51012
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 21, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.8 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.