- Date
- April 26, 2023, 18:00 local (Apr 27, 2023, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Glendale, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76GXRemos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau Remos GX
- 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
- 20230426007709A
- Case key
- 107156
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 hard landing and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
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 flight instructor reported that, during a practice power-off landing with a student pilot at the controls, he recommended using flaps to provide some additional lift to the airplane as it approached the runway. The airplane rapidly lost airspeed and lift, and subsequently landed hard. The student pilot applied full power with the intention of executing a go-around. The flight instructor then took control and promptly pulled the throttle, because he believed the propellor struck the runway. The airplane veered to the right and subsequently collided with terrain, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76GX
- Reported as
- Remos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau Remos GX
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 279
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 477
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Eagle Sport LLC, doing business as Fly Eagle Sport
- Registered owner
- Croughwell Edmond H
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 7, 2023 · 68 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- GEU · Glendale Muni, runway 1, 7,150 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Angle of attack indicator, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 528 total · 191 in this make and model · 461 as pilot in command · 91 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 11 in this make and model · 191 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.79 inHg
- Observed at
- KGEU
- METAR
- KGEU 270058Z 22009KT 10SM SKC 31/M06 A2979
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 8, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 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.