- Date
- July 19, 2021, 13:02 local (17:02 UTC)
- Place
- Rochester, NY · KROC Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N489MACessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- 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
- 20210719004309A
- Case key
- 103556
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s excessive speed and improper landing flare which resulted in abnormal runway contact, porpoising, and substantial damage.
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
According to the pilot, he was too fast on his final approach to land. He bounced hard multiple times before he finally landed. He then taxied to the fixed base operator on the field. Examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration Inspector revealed that the propeller tips, firewall, forward fuselage, and cabin floor were substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N489MA
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280489
- Built
- 1998
- Airframe hours
- 3,762.7
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rochester Air Center
- Registered owner
- Rochester Air Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 23, 2020 · 85 hours before
- Departed
- ROC · Rochester, NY
- Destination
- ROC · Rochester, NY
- Airport
- ROC · Frederick Douglass - Greater Rochester Intl, runway 25, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 21, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 219 total · 201 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- ROC
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 29, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.0 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.