# Incident 20030616024639I: Cessna 172N, Wichita, KS, June 16, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 16, 2003, 13:00 local time
- Place: Wichita, KS
- Airport: Wichita Mid-Continent
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.6922° N, 97.3375° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Wichita, KS, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6922&lon=-97.3375&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5087K, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5087K) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172N (registry code 2072434, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172N
- Reported engine: LYC O320H2AD
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 30 total, 25 in this make and model, 15 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030616024639I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) MARK EDWARD COX WAS DOING TOUCH AND GOES ON RUNWAY 19R AT WICHITA MID CONTINENT AIRPORT AT APPROXIMATELY 1300 LOCAL TIME ON 6/16/2003. THE TOWER INSTRUCTED HIM TO KEEP HIS PATTERN IN CLOSE AND MAKE A SHORT APPROACH. ON DEPARTURE MR. COX BEGAN HIS TURN TO CROSSWIND AT 150 TO 200 FEET AGL AND DID NOT REACH PATTERN ALTITUDE ON DOWNWIND. MR. COX TURNED A VERY SHORT BASE LEG AND WAS STILL NOT LINED UP WITH THE RUNWAY CENTERLINE WHEN CROSSING THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD. THE TOUCHDOWN WAS VERY HARD AND HE BECAME AIRBORNE AGAIN. THIS HAPPENED A SECOND TIME AND ON THE THIRD TOUCHDOWN THE PROPELLER STRUCK THE RUNWAY. MR. COX TAXIED THE AIRPLANE CLEAR OF THE RUNWAY AND GOT OUT TO INSPECT THE DAMAGE. THEN HE ADVISED ATC THAT HE NEEDED TO HAVE THE AIRPLANE TOWED TO YINGLING AVIATION. MR. COX WAS THE SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE AIRCRAFT AND WAS NOT INJURED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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