- Date
- August 3, 2023, 10:52 local (14:52 UTC)
- Place
- Philadelphia, PA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N860TWCessna 172
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230803011809A
- Case key
- 192801
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 pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain control during a go-around. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the flight.
Findings · 4
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 pilot receiving instruction reported that while on final approach, the airspeed became slow so he lowered the airplane nose to increase the airspeed. The airplane landed firmly at the runway threshold and bounced. During the recovery from the bounce, the flight instructor commanded a go-around maneuver. During the go-around, the airplane’s nose rose high, and the airplane yawed and rolled to the left. The airplane impacted the ground alongside the runway and nosed over. Post accident examination revealed that the vertical stabilizer, rudder, empennage, and left wing sustained substantial damage. There were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N860TW
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (S)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9220
- Built
- 2002
- Airframe hours
- 6,368
- Engine
- Textron Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tailwinds LLC, doing business as Tailwinds Flight School
- Registered owner
- Tailwinds LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 2023
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PNE · Northeast Philadelphia, runway 15, 4,999 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Last flight review
- October 31, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 7,674 total · 1,944 in this make and model · 7,345 as pilot in command · 69 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 16, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 305.7 total · 151.1 in this make and model · 210.5 as pilot in command · 11.7 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KPNE
- METAR
- KPNE 031454Z 20006G14KT 10SM CLR 25/16 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP199 T02500156 58012=
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 25, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.6 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.