A C177 landed hard; bounced and suffered a nose gear collapse and prop strike upon touchdown.

Attributes
ACN	951450
Time
Date	201105
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cardinal 177/177RG
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Nose Gear Wheel
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 570 Flight Crew Type 350
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

Airplane bounced on landing and upon settling to the runway the nose gear went under the plane and the propeller struck the ground.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A C177 landed hard; bounced and suffered a nose gear collapse and prop strike upon touchdown.

Narrative: Airplane bounced on landing and upon settling to the runway the nose gear went under the plane and the propeller struck the ground.

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.