PA-30 Twin Comanche
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Total 5500; Flight Crew Type 600
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Aircraft; Human Factors
We were in the process of doing touch and goes. We had done two of them and the third landing was going to be a full stop. We came in on the approach in a very stable pitch and power setting. By that I mean 90 to 95 knots and 500 to 600 feet per minute for the descent. The student started his flare late and came down hard and bounced the aircraft back into the air. When this occurred he added power to get the plane flying again but when we came down the gear collapsed and we struck both the right and left props of the aircraft. There were no injuries and it seemed or appeared that the gear had folded into the wheel wells. We then exited the aircraft and airport security gave us a ride back to the hanger. The student did call for gear down before landing checklist abeam the 1000ft markers on the downwind leg. The gear handle was down when we exited the aircraft .
GA flight instructor reported the landing gear collapsed after a bounced landing by the pilot in training.