- Date
- April 22, 1990, 13:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Spartanburg, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N19119Cessna 177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900422011949A
- Case key
- 8232
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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 pilot was performing his third touch-and-go landing of the flight. He had flown two approaches with 10 degrees of flaps and elected to fly his third approach with 20 degrees of flaps. During the landing, the aircraft bounced, which led to a second bounce of greater magnitude. After the third touchdown, the nose gear collapsed, the propeller struck the runway, and the airplane was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N19119
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702559
- Airframe hours
- 1,210
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard C. Hutcheson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 9, 1989 · 55 hours before
- Airport
- SPA · Spartanburg Downtown, runway 4, 5,203 × 100 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,524 total · 960 in this make and model · 1,460 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.