- Date
- July 1, 1991, 12:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- Watkins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89900Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910701025269A
- Case key
- 18108
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft. A factor was the pilot misjudging his flare.
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 had just been released by his instructor for his second supervised solo flight. After takeoff, he stayed in closed traffic. On his approach to landing, he misjudged his landing flare. When he added power for a go-around, he lost directional control of the aircraft. The wing struck the ground, the aircraft cartwheeled, and then came to rest upside down.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89900
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276016
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- P.C. Flyers
- Registered owner
- P.C. Flyers
- Airport
- FTG · Front Range, runway 26, 8,000 × 100 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 24 total · 24 in this make and model · 24 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 43 °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 N89900 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.