Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the final approach, resulting in a hard landing and collision with runway edge lights.
NTSB Accidents
Skiplane Bent When Pilot Lands Between Runway and Taxiway
Probable Cause: The pilot’s loss of directional control while landing in soft snow, resulting in a nose over.
Bird Strikes 152 On Student’s Solo Cross-Country
Probable Cause: An inflight collision with a bird while approaching the destination airport.
Gender Reveal Flight Goes Awry
Probable Cause: A loss of engine power due to carburetor ice as a result of the pilot’s failure to use carburetor heat in conditions conducive to the formation of carburetor ice.
Student Pilot Hits Landscaper While Taxiing
Probable Cause: The pilot and the landscape worker’s inadequate visual lookout, which resulted in a collision.
Student’s Landing Attempt in Gusty Wind Bends Musketeer
Probable Cause: The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control, and the flight instructor’s lack of remedial action during a landing attempt in a gusty wind, which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway excursion.
Pilot Lands Gear Up When Distracted By Busy Pattern
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to lower the landing gear before touchdown, which resulted in a gear-up landing.
Fuel Starvation Ends Aerial Survey Flight Early
Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of the pilot’s mismanagement of the airplane’s fuel supply.
Kitfox Sinks in River After Hitting Powerlines
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from powerlines during low altitude flying.