- Date
- May 11, 1991, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Neosho, WI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7444ACessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910511015519A
- Case key
- 15059
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly flare the airplane and an improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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 pilot stated that while landing on a short, sod airstrip, the airplane developed a high sink rate during the flare. The airplane bounced twice during which the nose gear collapsed. The airplane subsequently nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7444A
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 29544
- Airframe hours
- 3,773
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eugene Uhing
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 11, 1990 · 25 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 18, 1,240 × 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
- 65
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 225 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- MSN, 30 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.