Narrative:

My student and I walked out to the plane to begin our flight. During our preflight I made a point to get on the ground and visually check the landing gear as I do before every flight in the seminole. We continued to complete the preflight checklist before starting the engines. We then took off and headed towards the practice area where we practiced climbout procedures; cruise; and turns. Then we returned to the airport where we practiced touch and goes. I flew the first one and did everything while talking and informing the student of what I was doing. After the touch and go while on upwind I told the student that the controls were his and I wanted to see him try it. It was a standard landing with no need for concern. Upon landing he brought the flaps back to zero and added full power. On our final touch and go tower asked us to go around so he added full power retracted the flaps and brought up the gear below 109 KTS. When he rolled out on downwind he brought the gear down. He had three green no red and the nose gear in the mirror. Abeam the 31 numbers he did his before landing checklist and brought the power back to 15 inches and selected flaps to 10 degrees. On base he slowed to 88 KTS brought the flaps to 25degrees and did his blue line gumps check (gas; undercarriage; mixture; props; nose gear in the mirror). On final he was a little fast so I told him to slow it down to 80 KTS and that would help us come down. Once we were over the runway he let the main gears touch first. Then he released the backpressure and let the nose gear touch. It touched for a second and then the nose hit the ground and the props hit as well. I immediately took the controls and made sure the power was idle and the mixtures were cut off. I turned off all the magnetos and all of the electrical switches and instructed him to get out behind me. We then waited for the emergency crew to arrive. We had no indication of any problems with our landing gear; so I believe that it had to be a mechanical problem. Possibly a faulty switch.

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Title: Instructor and student pilots aboard a PA44 suffered a nose gear collapse on their final landing of the day.

Narrative: My student and I walked out to the plane to begin our flight. During our preflight I made a point to get on the ground and visually check the landing gear as I do before every flight in the Seminole. We continued to complete the preflight checklist before starting the engines. We then took off and headed towards the practice area where we practiced climbout procedures; cruise; and turns. Then we returned to the airport where we practiced touch and goes. I flew the first one and did everything while talking and informing the student of what I was doing. After the touch and go while on upwind I told the student that the controls were his and I wanted to see him try it. It was a standard landing with no need for concern. Upon landing he brought the flaps back to zero and added full power. On our final touch and go tower asked us to go around so he added full power retracted the flaps and brought up the gear below 109 KTS. When he rolled out on downwind he brought the gear down. He had three green no red and the nose gear in the mirror. Abeam the 31 numbers he did his before landing checklist and brought the power back to 15 inches and selected flaps to 10 degrees. On base he slowed to 88 KTS brought the flaps to 25degrees and did his blue line GUMPS check (gas; undercarriage; mixture; props; nose gear in the mirror). On final he was a little fast so I told him to slow it down to 80 KTS and that would help us come down. Once we were over the runway he let the main gears touch first. Then he released the backpressure and let the nose gear touch. It touched for a second and then the nose hit the ground and the props hit as well. I immediately took the controls and made sure the power was idle and the mixtures were cut off. I turned off all the magnetos and all of the electrical switches and instructed him to get out behind me. We then waited for the emergency crew to arrive. We had no indication of any problems with our landing gear; so I believe that it had to be a mechanical problem. Possibly a faulty switch.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.