MKC82DA106 · Cessna T303
H & H Leasing Cessna T303 · Accident: hard landing
From Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT) to Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC82DA106
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna T303
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 303
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N9839T
- Operator
- H & H Leasing
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT), Wichita, KSTo Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT), Wichita, KS
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Hard landing
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Check pilot › Supervision, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Brakes(normal), improper use of
- Pilot in command › Level off, improper
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE OWNER/PILOT WAS RECEIVING A MULTI-ENGINE FLIGHT CHECK WITH A DESIGNATED FLIGHT EXAMINER ON BOARD. THE EXAMINER REPORTED THAT DURING AN APPROACH FOR A SHORT FIELD LANDING, THE PILOT ALLOWED THE AIRSPEED TO DECAY BELOW THE RECOMMENDED APPROACH SPEED. HE STATED THAT AT ABOUT 50 FT AGL, HE TOLD THE PILOT NOT TO REDUCE POWER SINCE HE WAS STILL A LITTLE SLOW. REPORTEDLY, THE PILOT REDUCED THE POWER TO IDLE AT ABOUT 30 FT AGL AND PULLED THE CONTROL WHEEL ALL THE WAY BACK. THE EXAMINER STATED THAT HE APPLIED FULL POWER AND ATTEMPTED TO PUSH THE CONTROL WHEEL FORWARD, BUT THE AIRCRAFT HIT HARD. THE TOUCHDOWN WAS MADE WITH THE NOSE HIGH AND THE BRAKES LOCKED. THE TIRES SKIDDED ABOUT 12 FT AND THEN THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR FAILED. THE AIRCRAFT WENT OFF THE LEFT SIDE OFTHE RUNWAY AND CAME TO REST ABOUT 500 TO 600 FT FROM THE INITIAL TOUCHDOWN POINT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC82DA106
- Event ID
- 20020917X03822
- Case number
- MKC82DA106
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 042316f7f013afe9f649b721370c165af3162616f02c4a19d21c528317a101d7; retrieved 2026-09-24T02:58:06.394Z.