- Date
- October 10, 1987, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stevensville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30590Cessna 177A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871010059299A
- Case key
- 11347
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While practicing touch-and-go landings, the student plt made an approach at a higher than normal airspeed. Subsequently,the acft bounced three times on the runway before the plt elected to go around. The student stated that control was lost on the go-around and the acft crashed on the left side of the runway. The left wing tip struck the ground aprx 30 feet left of the runway, followed closely by the prop. The acft came to rest about 86 feet from the initial impact point. The student rprtd there were no problems with the acft or eng.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30590
- Reported as
- Cessna 177A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17701346
- Airframe hours
- 2,117
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William Wemmer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 2, 1987 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- W29 · Bay Bridge, runway 28, 2,900 × 50 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 62 total · 13 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.