- Date
- August 25, 1990, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Farmington, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4347RCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900825036539A
- Case key
- 14760
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Probable cause
Remedial action was not attained by the CFI. Contributing to the accident was inadequate airspeed and porpoise encountered by the dual student pilot.
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
While practicing ldgs during a dual instructional flight, the student plt allowed the airspeed to decay resulting in a hard ldg and a rebound into the air. The student attempted to correct the pitch attitude, but was out of phase with the oscillations. The CFI said that he was unable to stabilize the acft before it hit nose down, collapsing the nose gear. The acft then skidded to a stop, on its nose.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4347R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17263098
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mccormick Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- FAM
- Airport
- FAM · Farmington, runway 20, 3,895 × 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,240 total · 425 in this make and model · 1,030 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CGI, 60 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.