- Date
- December 26, 2020, 17:39 local (22:39 UTC)
- Place
- Locust Grove, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N75825Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20201226017699A
- Case key
- 102463
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent runway excursion.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was landing on the wet, downward sloped turf runway. During the landing the airplane bounced “hard.” The pilot applied the brakes, but the airplane skidded off the wet turf runway and impacted a fence and trees. The airplane’s fuselage and wings were substantially damaged during the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75825
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (N)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267982
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 4,393
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Patrick Ronald D
- Registered owner
- Patrick Ronald D
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 8, 2020 · 6.7 hours before
- Airport
- GA04 · Mallards Landing, runway 07, 4,500 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Handheld GPS, Onboard weather, Satellite tracking device
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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 4, 2018
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 132 total · 40 in this make and model · 80 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- 6A2, 10 nm away
- METAR
- K6A2 262235Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 05/M11 A3014 RMK AO2
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 26, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 23.9 MB in all.
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 N75825 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.