A da-20 pilot reported a bird strike at 3;500 feet at night and then during landing the engine quit ...

Narrative:

On the way back to my home airport; I heard a loud bang and using a flashlight I realized that I had hit a bird. This caused a massive increase in pilot workload. I continued my flight to my destination and there seemed to be no control issues on the aircraft. Due to the increased workload I forgot to complete the decsent and landing checklists. This caused the mixture and boost pump to remain in the cruise setting. Wanting to get the aircraft down I set the aircraft up on a downwind entry onto xxr. I thought I had the runway edge lights in sight. I turned final and got myself set up for landing and realized it was the taxiway off to the right of the runway. I corrected right and lined up for final on the unlit xxr. 100 feet off the ground the engine of the aircraft sputtered and quit. I made a safe but extremely hard landing. On the ground the mixture and boost pump were put in the starting engine position and the starter was engaged. The engine started right up without further incident. At the time of landing the airport tower was not operating and the field was uncontrolled. Upon inspection of the aircraft there was no damage to the aircraft other than cosmetic.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A DA-20 pilot reported a bird strike at 3;500 feet at night and then during landing the engine quit because the mixture and boost pump were not configured for landing. Following a hard landing he was able to start the engine and taxi to ramp where he found no damage.

Narrative: On the way back to my home airport; I heard a loud bang and using a flashlight I realized that I had hit a bird. This caused a massive increase in pilot workload. I continued my flight to my destination and there seemed to be no control issues on the aircraft. Due to the increased workload I forgot to complete the Decsent and Landing checklists. This caused the mixture and boost pump to remain in the cruise setting. Wanting to get the aircraft down I set the aircraft up on a downwind entry onto XXR. I thought I had the runway edge lights in sight. I turned final and got myself set up for landing and realized it was the taxiway off to the right of the runway. I corrected right and lined up for final on the unlit XXR. 100 feet off the ground the engine of the aircraft sputtered and quit. I made a safe but extremely hard landing. On the ground the mixture and boost pump were put in the starting engine position and the starter was engaged. The engine started right up without further incident. At the time of landing the airport Tower was not operating and the field was uncontrolled. Upon inspection of the aircraft there was no damage to the aircraft other than cosmetic.

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Attributes
ACN	1172873
Time
Date	201405
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	DA20-C1 Eclipse
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Direct Visual Approach
Flight Plan	VFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Engine
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 47.3 Flight Crew Total 143
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal

A da-20 pilot reported a bird strike at 3;500 feet at night and then during landing the engine quit because the mixture and boost pump were not configured for landing. Following a hard landing he was able to start the engine and taxi to ramp where he found no damage.