N178SB – PIPER PA 34-200T – 2014-08-11 NTSB Accident Report

On August 11, 2014, a Piper PA 34-200T (N178SB) was involved in an incident near Gainesville, FL. All 1 person aboard were uninjured. The aircraft sustained substantial damage.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable cause of this incident to be: The pilot's inadequate landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.

According to the pilot, due to thunderstorms along his route of flight he elected to divert to a nearby airport. During landing, the aircraft nose landing gear contacted the runway and the airplane "bounced," which resulted in substantial damage to the forward bulkhead and the windshield center post. According to a Federal Aviation Administration inspector, the pilot had originally been cleared for an approach to one runway and subsequently performed a go-around due to being above a "normal" glidepath. The flight was then cleared to land on a crossing runway, at the tower controlled airport, entered final for the crossing runway, and upon landing the airplane porposied three times before coming to rest.

This incident is documented in NTSB report ERA14CA406. AviatorDB cross-references NTSB investigation data with FAA registry records to provide comprehensive safety information for aircraft N178SB.