Cessna CE-T206-H | N460DC

The DTSB determines the Probable Cause of this accident to be Pilot Error, in that the pilot flew a non stabilized approach to the short runway and attempted landing with excessive energy, whereupon he bounced several times, forcing the nosewheel down before electing to go around. In the act of the very late go around, the pilot failed to retract flaps or retrim, and allowed the nose of the plane to come up sufficient to where the aircraft was flying in a low energy, uncoordinated condition. The cause of this accident lies on both the non stabilized approach, as well as failure to hold the nose up after main wheel touchdown, as well as the following messed up go around that was not flown correctly. The aircraft impacted rising terrain about 700 feet past the end of the departure runway in level flight, but in rising terrain.

The DTSB recommends that all pilots of all aircraft rehearse and condition themselves to be ready for non stabilized approaches, be able to recognize such, and be able to perform standard go around from a worst cast scenario of low speed, full flaps, and fully trimmed for landing. The DTSB recommends that all pilots of all aircraft be aware of short runway operations and plan to land on speed with ever increasing pitch after mainwheel touchdown. The act of forcing the nose down, or even just relaxing back pressure causes the nose wheel to hit hard and then sets up a PIO oscillation that becomes more pronounced with each cycle. A very late go around on a short runway causes pilot panic and subconscious pull on the control yoke, whereby the wing exceeds the critical angle of attack, and the wing ceases to fly.