Pilot Debrief

CESSNA T337 near Linden, NJ — 2017-02-24

Final reportGAA17CA162
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Date
2017-02-24
Location
Linden, NJ, USA
Airport
LDJ
Aircraft
CESSNA T337
Registration
N685V
Category
Airplane
Highest injury
None
Fatalities
0

Probable cause

The pilot’s abrupt maneuver to avoid birds during short final approach, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing.

NTSB narrative

The pilot reported that, during approach, he pushed the yoke forward to avoid a flock of birds in his flightpath, which resulted in an "increased and abnormal rate of descent." He was then unable to arrest the descent, and the "main landing gear made very hard contact with the runway." The airplane bounced, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to rest nose down. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The Federal Aviation Administration Airport Facility Diagram page for the destination airport in part states: "Birds on and invof [in vicinity of] arpt."

NTSB coding

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