ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 297709
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| Date: | Monday 25 November 2019 |
| Time: | 16:10 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-34 |
| Owner/operator: | Us Aviation Group LLC |
| Registration: | N15412 |
| MSN: | 34-7350060 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 11482 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO360 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Pleasant, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Denton Municipal Airport, TX (KDTO) |
| Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, TX (KOSA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During the instructional cross-country flight, the pilot receiving instruction was in the left seat and manipulating the flight controls. During the landing attempt, the airplane bounced and became airborne again with a nose-high pitch attitude. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and continued the landing. Witnesses observed the airplane land hard, bounce, then the nose gear collapsed and punctured the fuselage and the windscreen. The airplane slid on the runway and came to rest upright. A postaccident examination revealed that the nose landing gear mounting structure was fractured at the lower truss. The mount was displaced upward and punctured the fuselage. The nose tire was partially deflated. The damage to the mounting structure was consistent with a hard landing on the nose landing gear.
Probable Cause: The pilot's hard, bounced landing and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action, which resulted in a fracture of the nose landing gear mounting structure.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN20TA025
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Oct-2022 07:32 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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