Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 47.3; Flight Crew Total 143
Workload; Troubleshooting; Time Pressure; Distraction; Confusion
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Inflight Shutdown; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure; Human Factors
On the way back to my home airport; I heard a loud bang and using a flashlight I realized that I had hit a bird. This caused a massive increase in pilot workload. I continued my flight to my destination and there seemed to be no control issues on the aircraft. Due to the increased workload I forgot to complete the Decsent and Landing checklists. This caused the mixture and boost pump to remain in the cruise setting. Wanting to get the aircraft down I set the aircraft up on a downwind entry onto XXR. I thought I had the runway edge lights in sight. I turned final and got myself set up for landing and realized it was the taxiway off to the right of the runway. I corrected right and lined up for final on the unlit XXR. 100 feet off the ground the engine of the aircraft sputtered and quit. I made a safe but extremely hard landing. On the ground the mixture and boost pump were put in the starting engine position and the starter was engaged. The engine started right up without further incident. At the time of landing the airport Tower was not operating and the field was uncontrolled. Upon inspection of the aircraft there was no damage to the aircraft other than cosmetic.
A DA-20 pilot reported a bird strike at 3;500 feet at night and then during landing the engine quit because the mixture and boost pump were not configured for landing. Following a hard landing he was able to start the engine and taxi to ramp where he found no damage.