- Date
- March 9, 1983, 14:47 local (21:47 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Spgs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5434KCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830309006899A
- Case key
- 16048
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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.
Analysis
The student pilot made a steep and fast approach to land and bounced, landing hard on the right main and nose gear. The aircraft touched down a second time, in a left drift and departed the runway. When the left gear went into a snowbank and the pilot added power to try to get clear but the nose gear hit the snow and the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5434K
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274108
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Usafa Aero Club
- Registered owner
- Robert Farrell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 21, 1983 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- COS · Colo Springs, CO
- Destination
- AFF · Usafa, CO
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- AFF · Usaf Academy, runway 34, 3,500 × 75 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 31 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AFF, 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.