- Date
- June 18, 1991, 13:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Dothan, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N851CACessna 182R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910618022459A
- Case key
- 8422
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Probable cause
Lack of supervision by the flight instructor who allowed a dual student to make a hard 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 dual student was given a simulated engine failure at about 100 feet AGL on initial takeoff. He lowered the nose to establish a 75-knot glide. A rapid sink rate developed, and he did not flare the airplane in time to prevent a hard landing. The flight instructor did not intervene with the pilot's actions prior to the impact with the runway. The instructor then performed a go-around and landed the airplane after surveying the aircraft damage. The dual student (w/commercial rating) had a total logged flight time of 1,872 hours, but only 25 hours in fixed-wing aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N851CA
- Reported as
- Cessna 182R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 182-67851
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Safety International
- Registered owner
- Flight Safety International
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- DHN · Dothan, runway 13, 8,498 × 150 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
- 34
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,653 total · 174 in this make and model · 2,930 as pilot in command · 199 in the last 90 days · 72 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DHN, 1 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.