Regional Jet CL65; Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Training / Qualification; Situational Awareness
Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Environment - Non Weather Related
I was the PF and was about to flare. The aircraft suddenly started aggressively banking from side to side. I was unsure why it was doing that and tried to level the wings. I was so distracted with the banking that I did not flare. The Captain told me the banking was due to wing tip vortices/wake turbulence. He wrote the event up as a hard landing for maintenance to review.Better situational awareness and preparation to deal with wake turbulence [is suggested].
Air carrier First Officer reported a hard landing when he encountered wake turbulence right before flaring at PHX.