- Date
- July 25, 1988, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gillette, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5266JCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880725063019A
- Case key
- 17518
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt was completing his first solo x-country flt. During touchdown, the airplane bounced and began to porpoise. On the third bounce, the nose wheel fork failed. Subsequently, the acft turned 180 deg to the left & came to rest on the left side of the rwy with structural damage to the firewall & airframe.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5266J
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273749
- Airframe hours
- 2,071
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Guy D. Taylor
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1988 · 85 hours before
- Departed
- EGS · Newcastle, WY
- Destination
- GCC
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- GCC · Gillette Campbell County, runway 16, 7,500 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 36 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 7 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
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 N5266J · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.