- Date
- February 26, 2026, 10:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Glendale, AZ · Glendale Regional Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88GXRemos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau Remos GX
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA Scottsdale FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260226000779A
- Case key
- 202582
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 solo student pilot's improper landing flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced 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 solo student pilot was conducting touch-and-go landings in the traffic pattern. During landing, the airplane touched down on the runway and bounced. The student pilot applied forward elevator control inputs to counteract the bounce; however, the airplane bounced two more times, which the pilot counteracted again by applying forward elevator control inputs. during which the pilot again applied forward control inputs. Subsequently, the airplane touched down in a nose low attitude, which resulted in the nose landing gear bending aft and a propeller strike. The fuselage and firewall sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88GX
- Reported as
- Remos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau Remos GX
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 311
- Built
- 2009
- Airframe hours
- 6,419
- Engine
- Rotax 912-UL5, 100 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Fly Eagle Sport, doing business as Fly Eagle Sport
- Registered owner
- N88gx LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 5, 2026 · 75 hours before
- Departed
- GEU · Glendale, AZ
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KGEU · Glendale Regional, runway 01, 7,150 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 73.6 total · 64.8 in this make and model · 10.4 as pilot in command · 73.6 in the last 90 days · 45.5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- KGEU
- METAR
- METAR KGEU 261651Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/06 A3001
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.7 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.