- Date
- June 19, 2022, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fargo, ND · On Airport
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5256SCessna 172S
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- 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
- 20220619010699A
- Case key
- 105342
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 flight instructor’s failure to adequately monitor the pilot flying, which resulted in a nose-wheel first hard landing.
Findings · 5
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 during a discovery flight, the customer in the right seat locked his arms forward during landing and the instructor was unable to overpower him. The airplane subsequently landed hard with the nose wheel first and bounced. The instructor conducted a go-around and landed safely. A postaccident examination revealed substantial damage to the airframe.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5256S
- Reported as
- Cessna 172S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S10901
- Built
- 2009
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Fargo Jet Center LLC
- Registered owner
- Fargo Jet Center LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- FAR · Hector Intl, runway 18, 9,001 × 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
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Seat
- Right
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 22 knots, gusting 32
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.66 inHg
- Observed at
- KFAR
- METAR
- KFAR 192253Z 20022G32KT 10SM CLR 38/19 A2966 RMK AO2 PK WND 20034/2158 SLP034 T03780189
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 22, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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.