Narrative:

During a normal approach and landing the student touched down in a 3-point attitude despite verbal 'nose up' prompts from the instructor; bounced in the air; and the instructor took the plane and settled back down on the runway on the mains. As the nose wheel area was lowered back down to the runway; it became evident the nose wheel was missing as the sound of scraping ensued. The instructor immediately increased back pressure to keep the nose strut off the pavement while simultaneously shutting down the engine moving the mixture to idle cutoff. As the plane slowed; it became increasingly difficult to keep the nose up and the nose strut eventually settled back down onto the runway. Tower instructed to exit off at B3; but being unable; tower was advised that the airplane had lost its nose wheel and came to a stop just east of taxiway B3. Instructor completed the shut down and; after the crew advised tower they were going to hang by the plane and call company dispatch; the crew exited the aircraft. Post-flight inspection revealed the entire nose wheel assembly had sheared off and the tip of one prop had scraping indicating a prop strike on the runway (not sure if it was while the engine was still running or due to the prop stopping in the vertical position after shut down and scraping the ground). Rubber streaks were found on the bottom of the nose strut and on the right underside of the aircraft near the student's foot step showing where the nose tire had made contact with the aircraft as it departed. No injuries occurred to either crew member. From a 'what would I do different?' standpoint; instructor could have switched from verbal prompting to physically taking the aircraft; but from a touch down point of view; it wasn't notably harder than any of the previous landings observed by the instructor.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Diamond aircraft instructor pilot reported the failure of the nose gear during touchdown with the student at the controls.

Narrative: During a Normal Approach and Landing the student touched down in a 3-point attitude despite verbal 'nose up' prompts from the Instructor; bounced in the air; and the Instructor took the plane and settled back down on the Runway on the mains. As the nose wheel area was lowered back down to the Runway; it became evident the nose wheel was missing as the sound of scraping ensued. The Instructor immediately increased back pressure to keep the nose strut off the pavement while simultaneously shutting down the engine moving the Mixture to Idle Cutoff. As the plane slowed; it became increasingly difficult to keep the nose up and the nose strut eventually settled back down onto the Runway. Tower instructed to exit off at B3; but being unable; Tower was advised that the airplane had lost its nose wheel and came to a stop just east of Taxiway B3. Instructor completed the shut down and; after the crew advised Tower they were going to hang by the plane and call company dispatch; the crew exited the aircraft. Post-flight inspection revealed the entire nose wheel assembly had sheared off and the tip of one prop had scraping indicating a prop strike on the Runway (not sure if it was while the engine was still running or due to the prop stopping in the vertical position after shut down and scraping the ground). Rubber streaks were found on the bottom of the nose strut and on the right underside of the aircraft near the student's foot step showing where the nose tire had made contact with the aircraft as it departed. No injuries occurred to either crew member. From a 'What would I do different?' standpoint; Instructor could have switched from verbal prompting to physically taking the aircraft; but from a touch down point of view; it wasn't notably harder than any of the previous landings observed by the Instructor.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.