DFW07CA012 · Cessna 182
Jay Air Cessna 182 · Accident: hard landing
From Southern Seaplane Airport (65LA) to General Dewitt Spain Airport (M01)
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW07CA012
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 182
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- 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
- N1013Y
- Operator
- Jay Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Southern Seaplane Airport (65LA), Belle Chasse, LATo General Dewitt Spain Airport (M01), Memphis, TN
- 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
- Fuselage, firewall › Bent
- Landing gear, nose gear attach point › Fractured
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The 172-hour private pilot lined up the single-engine airplane for final approach for runway 19 ( 5,000 feet wide by 100 feet long ). The pilot reported that he performed a slight "sideslip" to correct for the light prevailing crosswind and reported that the touchdown was normal, with the right main gear making contact with the runway first, followed by the left main, and then the nose gear. The pilot stated that "about two seconds later a loud pop was heard and the airplane began to pull to the right." As the airplane slowed down, the airplane began to shudder. After taxiing clear of the runway with full up elevator and disembarking the airplane, the pilot noticed that the nose wheel pant was broken and trailing the nose landing gear. A mechanic, located on the field, removed the remaining part of the wheel pant and noted no other damage. The pilot continued on his return flight and made an uneventful landing at his home airfield. The airplane's last 100-hour inspection was accomplished on September 25, 2006. Additionally, the airplane was part of a rental fleet and had logged 15 flights (41.3 hours) between September 25 and October 15, 2006. The 100-hour inspection of the airplane revealed that the nose wheel strut attachments had sheared and the structural engine firewall had been buckled.
Probable cause
The structural damage to the firewall during a suspected hard landing.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW07CA012
- Event ID
- 20061114X01647
- Case number
- DFW07CA012
- 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, coordinates. 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: 0e0cb907f14b6aa47dee619dd40bb897e3cea7cb94d383d49a10a649c8613306; retrieved 2026-09-22T04:18:33.813Z.