Accident Cessna 208B Supervan 900 N80JF,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 319408

Date:	Saturday 29 June 2019
Time:	09:10
Type:	Cessna 208B Supervan 900
Owner/operator:	ISR Aviation LLC
Registration:	N80JF
MSN:	208B0352
Year of manufacture:	1993
Engine model:	Honeywell TPE331-12JR
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	Plant City-Blackwater Creek Ultralight Flightpark, FL - United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Parachuting
Departure airport:	Plant City-Blackwater Creek Ultralight Flightpark, FL
Destination airport:	Plant City-Blackwater Creek Ultralight Flightpark, FL
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
A Cessna 208B, N80JF, was substantially damaged while landing at Blackwater Creek Ultralight Flightpark (9FD2), Plant City, Florida. The pilot was not injured.
According to the pilot, the airplane performed normally during the preflight, takeoff, and skydiving operations. Then, while on the final approach leg to runway 35, about 80 ft above ground level and a "few feet before the threshold," the windshield became "foggy outside" and the pilot could not see the runway. He did not attempt to abort the landing because the jumpers were in the area and he did not want to risk hitting any of them or trees surrounding the runway. The pilot maintained the airplane heading and descent, he felt the main landing gear touchdown, applied reverse thrust, and then felt the nose landing gear collapse before the propeller struck the ground and the airplane came to rest.
An NTSB review of a witness video recording revealed that during the landing, the nose landing gear contacted the runway first, followed by the main landing gear, and the airplane bounced. Next, the nose landing gear impacted the runway prior to collapsing and the airplane continued down the runway out of view.
An examination of the wreckage by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the nose landing gear separated from the airplane. In addition, part of the fuselage structure and an engine mount were substantially damaged.

Probable Cause: "The pilot's improper landing flare due to reduced visibility from a foggy windshield and his failure to use the airplanes windshield defrost system, which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent nose landing gear collapse."

Accident investigation: