PA23-250 pilot reported hitting a deer on runway in the landing flare.

Attributes
ACN	1647428
Time
Date	201905
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-23 Apache/Geronimo Apache
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Nose Gear
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 1500 Flight Crew Type 400
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal

Narrative:

Cross country to ZZZ. While at ZZZ performing my flare to land but prior to the mains touching down; 3 deer ran across the runway from right to left and directly under my plane. I immediately and simultaneously added power and pulled the nose up to go around but was not able to completely clear the animals. I heard and felt a significant double impact under the plane while initiating the go around. Immediately following the loud double impact; I instinctively looked at the mirror on my right engine and saw the nose gear 'dangling' back and forth freely. At that moment; I opted to abort the go around; I retarded the throttles to idle and landed roughly 1000 feet down the runway. As expected the nose gear completely collapsed.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA23-250 pilot reported hitting a deer on runway in the landing flare.

Narrative: Cross country to ZZZ. While at ZZZ performing my flare to land but prior to the mains touching down; 3 deer ran across the runway from right to left and directly under my plane. I immediately and simultaneously added power and pulled the nose up to go around but was not able to completely clear the animals. I heard and felt a significant double impact under the plane while initiating the go around. Immediately following the loud double impact; I instinctively looked at the mirror on my right engine and saw the nose gear 'dangling' back and forth freely. At that moment; I opted to abort the go around; I retarded the throttles to idle and landed roughly 1000 feet down the runway. As expected the nose gear completely collapsed.

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.