- Date
- May 19, 2022, 11:21 local (15:21 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2128ECessna 172N
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220519007369A
- Case key
- 105101
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s improper landing flare and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial response which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The flight instructor reported that shortly before touchdown, the student pilot flared too low, overcorrected, and the airplane ballooned. The instructor then took the flight controls and initiated a go around; however, the airplane entered an aerodynamic stall, went to the left, and landed hard. The left wing impacted the ground and the airplane rolled off the runway and came to rest in the grass. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the outboard portion of the left wing. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2128E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271165
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 5,801.4
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Century Aviation
- Registered owner
- Blue Bird Rental LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 5, 2021
- Departed
- KGWB · Auburn, IN
- Destination
- KGWB · Auburn, IN
- Airport
- GWB · DeKalb County Airport, runway 27, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 7 in this make and model · 0 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 9, 2021
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 434 total · 288 in this make and model · 402 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.78 inHg
- Observed at
- KGWB
- METAR
- KGWB 191515Z AUTO 20005KT 7SM CLR 19/15 A2978 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 27, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.