Flight Crew Student
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 27; Flight Crew Total 27
Communication Breakdown; Training / Qualification; Confusion
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Human Factors
Practicing landings and flight pattern. As practicing the landing I was told to pull quickly for the flare process of the plane and caused a miscommunication as to pull on the yolk quicker. With the miscommunication caused the airplane to balloon and land on the nose wheel hard and causing internal damage to the nose wheel internals; ripping almost all the screws off the nose wheel screws keeping it attached to the plane. After the incident the instructor took control of the plane and went on a go-around and landed the plane with the nose being as high off ground as possible.
I was instructing my student on landing; focusing on the timing of flaring. He flared too much; which made him balloon. And to correct for it; he pushed down on the control to bring the nose down and landed nose first. The process was too quick for me to intervene. I heard a cracking sound as the nose wheel touched down on the runway. I executed a go around and made a soft field landing; wheelbarrowing the plane all the way down to the taxiway connected to our flight school's entrance. When I exited the plane; I visibly verified that the nose strut was sitting abnormally. I alerted our maintenance tech; who has verified that the nose strut was damaged.
C172 student and instructor pilots reported a hard landing.