| Crash location | 32.633056°N, 116.893055°W
Reported location is a long distance from the NTSB's reported nearest city. This often means that the location has a typo, or is incorrect. |
| Nearest city | Chula Vista, CA
32.640054°N, 117.084196°W 11.1 miles away |
| Tail number | N9727F |
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| Accident date | 06 Aug 2012 |
| Aircraft type | Cessna 208 |
| Additional details: | None |
The pilot said that while on short final, the airplane experienced a sudden sink rate when the wind went from a head wind to calm conditions. He was unable to arrest the sink rate even after power was applied because of the lag time for the airplane’s turbine engine to spool up. The airplane landed hard, short of the runway. After taxiing to the ramp, examination of the airplane revealed that the left side of the fuselage was dented and wrinkled, and the left main gear was found bent inboard of the axle and its brake assembly was missing.
The pilot's failure to arrest the aircraft's sink rate on short final, which resulted in a hard landing.