- Date
- December 24, 2002, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tea, SD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N692SPCessna 172S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 25, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Adminstration
- FAA report
- 20021224035869A
- Case key
- 56579
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare. The pilot's lack of experience and diverted attention were factors.
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 airplane sustained substantial damage during a hard landing. The airplane was piloted by a student solo pilot performing a touch and go landing. The pilot stated that he became distracted by an airplane holding short of the landing runway because there was no response to his radio transmissions conveying his intentions to land. The stall warning horn then sounded and the airplane stalled onto the runway. The student pilot had a total flight time of 27.3 hours, of which 5.1 hours was solo flight time.
Factual narrative
On December 24, 2002, at 1500 central standard time, a Cessna 172S, N692SP, operated by Great Planes Aviation (dba Yankee Fourteen Aviation Inc.) as a rental/instructional airplane, received substantial damage during a hard landing at Marv Skie-Lincoln County Airport (Y14), Tea, South Dakota. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The 14 CFR Part 91 student solo flight was not operating on a flight plan. The student pilot was uninjured. The local flight originated from Y14 at 1450.
The student pilot stated that he was on final approach at the uncontrolled airport for his second touch and go landing when he saw another airplane taxi up and hold short of the landing runway. The student pilot radioed his intentions but did not hear a response. He was not sure that the other airplane had a radio since there was no response to his intentions. He was distracted by the other airplane and got too slow. He then heard the stall warning horn and stalled onto the runway.
The student pilot had a total flight time of 27.3 hours, of which 5.1 hours was solo flight time.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N692SP
- Reported as
- Cessna 172S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S8102
- Airframe hours
- 1,240
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Great Planes Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 30, 1899 · 4.4 hours before
- Departed
- Y14 · Tea, SD
- Destination
- Y14
- Airport
- Y14 · Great Planes, runway 34, 3,650 × 60 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- FSD, 8 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.