- Date
- August 7, 2023, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Aurora, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4757NCessna 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20230807019459A
- Case key
- 193199
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, 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 during landing, the airplane bounced, and he initiated a go-around. He subsequently landed the airplane without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4757N
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18267343
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 7,085.2
- Engine
- P Ponk O-470-50, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Twin Falls Fliers Inc
- Registered owner
- Twin Falls Fliers Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 7, 2023 · 86 hours before
- Departed
- BNO · Burns, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- UAO · Aurora State Airport, runway 35, 5,003 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 30, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,113 total · 137 in this make and model · 1,113 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KUAO
- METAR
- KUAO 072053Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 28/13 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP195 T02780133 58011=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 2, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.7 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.