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Aero commander lark pilot reports a ballooned landing due to a gust of wind that ends in a hard landing and failure of the right main gear.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 950125 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201105 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Lark |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Main Gear |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 3 Flight Crew Total 178 Flight Crew Type 78 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
When landing the nose of the aircraft was lifted by a sudden gust of wind allowing the aircraft to lose airspeed and lift at a critical point in the landing process. As this happened quickly and unexpectedly attempts at compensating by adding power were not effective enough to prevent the aircraft from dropping a short distance to the runway. This resulted in a collapse of the right main landing gear and the plane left the runway to the right. There was little time to employ corrective action; and the age of the aircraft was probably a factor in the gear failure.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Aero Commander Lark pilot reports a ballooned landing due to a gust of wind that ends in a hard landing and failure of the right main gear.
Narrative: When landing the nose of the aircraft was lifted by a sudden gust of wind allowing the aircraft to lose airspeed and lift at a critical point in the landing process. As this happened quickly and unexpectedly attempts at compensating by adding power were not effective enough to prevent the aircraft from dropping a short distance to the runway. This resulted in a collapse of the right main landing gear and the plane left the runway to the right. There was little time to employ corrective action; and the age of the aircraft was probably a factor in the gear failure.
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.