Zenair CH 2000 N8503J

Summary

On 22 April 2006 at about 22:00 local time, a Zenair CH 2000 registered N8503J was involved in an accident near Tooele, Utah, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

22 April 2006 at 22:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Tooele, Utah, United States

Nearest airport

Bolinder Field - Tooele Valley (TVY)

Coordinates

40.6122, -112.3508

Aircraft

Zenair CH 2000

Registration

N8503J

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Salt Lake City → Tooele

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

SEA06CA093

Nobody was injured.

The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the student pilot during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing. A contributing factor was the student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing flare.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the flight instructor, the airplane touched down on the main landing gear and bounced. He added "power to help soften the landing," and at this point, the student "released his grip on the flight controls, causing the nose of the aircraft to pitch up dramatically. Almost immediately after the initial upward pitch, the aircraft dropped down hard on the nose wheel, which broke off." The airplane slid off the right side of the runway, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to a stop nose down. An FAA inspector examined the airplane and reported that the firewall was damaged.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.