- Date
- October 2, 2024, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mesa, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4199MDiamond Aircraft Ind DA20-C1
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear collapse
- 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
- 20241002019109A
- Case key
- 195287
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 receiving instruction’s failure to maintain airspeed during landing and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in a hard landing.
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 operator of the airplane reported that, with the pilot receiving instruction at the flight controls, the approach airspeed for landing was higher than normal. The airplane touched down hard onto the runway and bounced twice. Although the crew attempted to perform a go-around, the airplane bounced a third time and the nose gear collapsed, which resulted in substantial damage to the composite section of the lower fuselage. The operator reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airframe or engine that would have precluded a normal operation
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4199M
- Reported as
- Diamond Aircraft Ind DA20-C1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- C0170
- Airframe hours
- 9,393.7
- Engine
- Continental IO-240B, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cae Oxford Aviation Academy Phoenix Inc
- Registered owner
- Cae Oxford Aviation Academy Phoenix Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 7, 2024 · 24.2 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- FFZ · Falcon Field, runway 22L, 5,100 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 27, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 24 in this make and model · 750 as pilot in command · 198 in the last 90 days · 66 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Other flight crew
- Age
- 32
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 6, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 530 total · 2 in this make and model · 230 as pilot in command · 83 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 102 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.76 inHg
- Observed at
- KFFZ
- METAR
- KFFZ 022254Z 18004KT 10SM CLR 39/03 A2976 RMK AO2 SLP049 T03890028
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 8, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.2 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.