- Date
- May 13, 1989, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fuquay, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N733VSCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890513012869A
- Case key
- 8029
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control of the aircraft during the landing, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. Contributing factors were: improper flare by the student during the landing, which resulted in a hard landing, and the soft/wet (swampy) terrain conditions.
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
During a solo-instructional flight, the student pilot landed hard during her fourth touch-&-go landing. She reported that she did not adequately flare the airplane and she was unable to maintain directional control on the runway. Subsequently, the airplane went into a swampy area beside the runway and was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N733VS
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17268588
- Airframe hours
- 2,040
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- House, Harper H.
- Registered owner
- Harper H House
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 29, 1988 · 245 hours before
- Airport
- 5W5 · Triple W Air Park, runway 16, 3,004 × 70 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 45 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDU, 16 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.