- Date
- May 29, 1988, 11:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Aurora, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N736AFCessna R172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14082
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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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 - improperCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Analysis
The pilot said that on final apch, 'a rapid descent took place.' The aircraft touched down on the rwy and bounced. The pilot said he added pwr and lowered the nose, but the nose gear and propeller hit the rwy. The acft bounced again and sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N736AF
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1722367
- Airframe hours
- 700
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-K, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rmh Leasing
- Registered owner
- Randall M. Henning
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 19, 1988 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- MWC · Milwaukee, WI
- Destination
- ARR · Aurora, IL
- Airport
- ARR · Aurora Muni, runway 27, 5,099 × 100 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 115 total · 33 in this make and model · 70 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ARR, 2 nm away