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A PA46 pilot and instructor pilot reported a hard landing during landing practice in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft was damaged but flown out for maintenance on a ferry permit.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 880743 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201003 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-46 Malibu/Malibu Mirage/Malibu Matrix |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Sea Flight Crew Flight Instructor |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 12000 Flight Crew Type 7000 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Trainee |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50 Flight Crew Total 3500 Flight Crew Type 1900 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Other / Unknown Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft |
Narrative:
I was conducting flight training in a P46T jetprop dlx (turbine malibu). We were doing pattern work (takeoffs and landings) on the favored runway and the wind conditions were gusty. We were landing with reduced flaps (10 degrees). Just before touchdown; the airspeed decayed suddenly and the airplane developed a high sink rate; which we were not able to arrest. The airplane hit the runway hard and the left tire blew out; however; we maintained control of the airplane and we kept it on the runway. The left landing gear was damaged (bent axle) and there was some damage to the left wing (some wrinkled skins). There were no injuries of any sort. The airplane was flown out by me with a ferry permit; where repairs will be carried out. Even though we believed to have sufficient airspeed; this incident could have been prevented by further increasing the airspeed on final to compensate for the gusty conditions.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A PA46 pilot and instructor pilot reported a hard landing during landing practice in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft was damaged but flown out for maintenance on a ferry permit.
Narrative: I was conducting flight training in a P46T JetProp DLX (turbine Malibu). We were doing pattern work (takeoffs and landings) on the favored runway and the wind conditions were gusty. We were landing with reduced flaps (10 degrees). Just before touchdown; the airspeed decayed suddenly and the airplane developed a high sink rate; which we were not able to arrest. The airplane hit the runway hard and the left tire blew out; however; we maintained control of the airplane and we kept it on the runway. The left landing gear was damaged (bent axle) and there was some damage to the left wing (some wrinkled skins). There were no injuries of any sort. The airplane was flown out by me with a ferry permit; where repairs will be carried out. Even though we believed to have sufficient airspeed; this incident could have been prevented by further increasing the airspeed on final to compensate for the gusty conditions.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.