Really bad landing...

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Bounced landing did not go well. Don't know all the details but the rental plane ended up on it's back and the pilot walked away.

Apparently the engine had just been over-hauled. Accident occurred at Cloverdale Airport on the Jan. 15, 2018 weekend.

That's all I know about this. Strangely it never made it into the newspapers (which may be a good thing for our little airport).
 

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What a sad looking little plane now. It looks like a puppy that just got his nose popped with a newspaper.
 
Yeah now you know dem nose wheel/ struct shouldn't touch before the mains. Now look what you done did.
 
Our local FBO has had not one, but TWO off-airport landings with its rental fleet in the past couple of weeks. One Cherokee in a cornfield, one Luscombe 11E (look that one up) on a ball field. The Cherokee looked pretty good, the Luscombe might need more than a buffer.
 
Pilot walked away = good. Plane not immediately re-useable = not great.
 
May be he was trying to get 3 landing out of 1?

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I’ll bet his Angle of Attack indicator would be pegged at “Full Aggression” after landing that hard.
 
A bounced landing is really just repeatedly throwing the engine down on top of the nose gear until it collapses.
 
At our little airport I constantly observe trike airplanes landing flat. Especially Cessnas. Doesn't the new generation CFIs teach full stall landings with the nose wheel being held off?

When I train tow pilots to fly my straight tail 182 I notice the same trend. I tell them if they make flat landings I won't keep them around.
 
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