- Date
- December 30, 1986, 15:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Mosinee, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3220LCessna 172H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861230070879A
- Case key
- 13716
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 CFI stated that while in the landing configuration, over the apch end of the rwy, the student excessively flared the acft and it stalled with the right wing contacting the rwy. According to the CFI, power was added but it was too late to 'save the landing.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3220L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17256120
- Airframe hours
- 2,768
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert J. Gehring
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 15, 1986 · 37 hours before
- Airport
- CWA · Central Wisconsin Airport, runway 26, 7,645 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 42
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 313 total · 126 in this make and model · 228 as pilot in command · 77 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CWA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.