- Date
- October 22, 1992, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Noblesville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N35230Cessna C177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921022046319A
- Case key
- 15616
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Probable cause
The pilot's 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 reported he was attempting a night landing at nobelsville airport. He said the airplane landed on the nose wheel and bounced into the air. The airplane hit the runway and bounced again. The pilot added power, but was unable to keep the airplane from colliding with the runway a third time and sustaining substantial damage. The pilot reported his total flight experience was 103 hours, with 13 hours in the accident type airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35230
- Reported as
- Cessna C177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702278
- Airframe hours
- 1,510
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360AIF6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jacobi/Bittner/Boice, Et Al
- Registered owner
- Jacobi/Bittner/Boice, Et Al
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 4, 1992 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- MQJ · Mt. Comfort, IN
- Destination
- 23II · Noblesville, IN
- Airport
- 23II · Nobelsville, runway 27, 3,600 × 150 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 103 total · 13 in this make and model · 71 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 250° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.