- Date
- May 7, 1988, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bowling Green, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5495KCessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880507013049A
- Case key
- 7756
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The plt reported that he reduced the pwr to idle while on final appch after determining that the airplane was too high. He then lowered the nose to 'accelerate the descent'. The airplane touched down long on the rwy at about 90 KTS, and began to porpoise. He became concerned that the airplane might overrun the rwy end, and pushed the nose down to get the airplane on the rwy. The nosewheel hit the rwy hard, and the nose gear collapsed. The engine firewall and the propeller were damaged during the mishap.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5495K
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274160
- Airframe hours
- 2,768
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Travelair Taxi, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 4, 1988
- Departed
- PCW · Port Clinton, OH
- Airport
- 1G0 · Wood County, runway 9, 4,200 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 43 total · 43 in this make and model · 18 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Observed at
- TOL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N5495K · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.