ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 319840
| Date: | Friday 4 August 2017 |
| Time: | 13:00 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Owner/operator: | Kapowsin Air Sports |
| Registration: | N9829B |
| MSN: | 208B0116 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1988 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mulino State Airport, OR -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | Mulino State Airport, OR |
| Mulino State Airport, OR | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot of the Cessna 208B ((Blackhawk VY conversion) was conducting parachute jump operations in the vicinity of the airport. After climbing to altitude, he released his jumpers and returned to land on runway 32. The pilot reported that during the landing flare, the airplane struck the runway, nose wheel first. He added that the airplane bounced, floated down the runway, then settled to the right of the runway.
The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount and right elevator.
The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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