- Date
- January 16, 1993, 10:25 local (15:25 UTC)
- Place
- Palmetto, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8226LCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930116000509A
- Case key
- 8725
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point, and his improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor was the pilot's lack of total experience in the airplane.
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 conducting practice landings, and had completed two landings without difficulty. On the third landing, the airplane touched down at mid field and bounced. The pilot applied full power to recover from the bounce, but the airplane touched down again and rolled off the departure end of runway 27 into a ravine. The pilot completed a biennial flight review three days before the accident, and had two hours of flight experience in the Cessna 172. No mechanical problems were reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8226L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 56426
- Airframe hours
- 3,636
- Engine
- Continental O-300/D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gause Aviation Services Inc.,
- Registered owner
- Gause Aviation Services Inc.,
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 28, 1992 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- 8A9
- Airport
- 8A9 · South Fulton, runway 27, 2,090 × 40 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 142 total · 2 in this make and model · 142 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTY, 12 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.
Other investigations on N8226L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.