- Date
- September 15, 1992, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yipslanti, MI
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96593Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920915039349A
- Case key
- 15549
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Probable cause
The pilot's premature flare during landing and not performing a 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 he was attempting to land the airplane. He said the airplane was flying about ten feet above the runway, and 1,000 feet from the numbers, when the '...wheels hit the runway.' The airplane porpoised three to four times before coming to a stop with a partially collapsed nose gear. The pilot stated he had two hours of dual instruction during the checkout in the accident airplane. The pilot stated he could not recall if he had received training in recoveries from bad landings during the checkout. He said his logbook did not show the training.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96593
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276092
- Airframe hours
- 3,531
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Air One Aviation
- Registered owner
- Air One Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 17, 1992 · 461 hours before
- Airport
- YIP · Willow Run, runway 27, 7,294 × 160 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 62 total · 5 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YIP, 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.
Other investigations on N96593 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.