- Date
- May 31, 1986, 20:18 local (Jun 1, 1986, 01:18 UTC)
- Place
- Houghton Lake, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4155VCessna 170
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860531076909A
- Case key
- 13299
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - misjudgedFactor
Recovery from bounced landing - improperFactor
Nose over
Brakes(normal) - inadvertent useCause
Anxiety/apprehensionCause
Analysis
This student pilot on his initial solo flight bounced the acft during landing. On the second bounce, the pilot inadvertently applied the toe braked and aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4155V
- Reported as
- Cessna 170
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18487
- Airframe hours
- 1,506
- Engine
- Continental C-145, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Daniel M. Hamp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1986 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- HTL · Houghton Lake, MI
- Airport
- HTL · Roscommon County, runway 18, 2,025 × 80 ft, grass/turf
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 14 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HTL, 1 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.