- Date
- August 14, 2008, 09:10 local (13:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cincinnati, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N21SZCessna 172R
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20080814844109A
- Case key
- 68912
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing. Contributing to the accident were the improper flare and excessive airspeed.
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 reported the purpose of the flight was to practice landings at a tower controlled airport. He stated that he landed too fast and the airplane bounced on touchdown. He attempted to recover the landing, but the airplane began to porpoise. The pilot reported the airplane porpoised several times prior to the nose gear collapsing and the airplane coming to rest on the runway.
Factual narrative
On August 14, 2008, at 0910 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172R, N21SZ, collided with runway 21R (3,802 feet long by 100 feet wide, asphalt) following a loss of control while landing at the Cincinnati Municipal-Lunken Airport (LUK), Cincinnati, Ohio. The student pilot was not injured. The airplane received substantial damage to the firewall. The solo training flight was operating under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated from the Blue Ash Airport (ISZ), Cincinnati, Ohio, at 0830. The pilot reported the purpose of the flight was to practice landings at a tower controlled airport. He stated he landed too fast and the airplane bounced on touchdown. He attempted to recover the landing, but the airplane began to porpoise. The pilot reported the airplane porpoised several times prior to the nose gear collapsing and the airplane coming to rest on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21SZ
- Reported as
- Cessna 172R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280653
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Blue Ash Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ISZ · Cincinnati, OH
- Destination
- LUK · Cincinnati, OH
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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 100 total · 100 in this make and model · 16 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 0 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.87 inHg
- Observed at
- LUK
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.