Cessna T337 N685V

Summary

On 24 February 2017 at about 23:45 local time, a Cessna T337 registered N685V was involved in an accident near Linden, New Jersey, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

24 February 2017 at 23:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Linden, New Jersey, United States

Nearest airport

Linden (LDJ)

Coordinates

40.6172, -74.2436

Aircraft

Cessna T337

Registration

N685V

Category

Airplane

Year built

1976

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Linden → Linden

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

GAA17CA162

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s abrupt maneuver to avoid birds during short final approach, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported that, during approach, he pushed the yoke forward to avoid a flock of birds in his flightpath, which resulted in an "increased and abnormal rate of descent." He was then unable to arrest the descent, and the "main landing gear made very hard contact with the runway." The airplane bounced, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to rest nose down. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The Federal Aviation Administration Airport Facility Diagram page for the destination airport in part states: "Birds on and invof [in vicinity of] arpt."

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.