- Date
- September 11, 2021, 16:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Kennesaw, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9522LCessna 172P
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 20210911022619A
- Case key
- 104131
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing.
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 student pilot reported that, while on final approach, that he crossed the runway numbers, but waited “too long” to flare the airplane and landed on the main landing gear and nosewheel at the same time. The airplane bounced, and the pilot “realized that [he] had made a very hard landing.” The airplane bounced another three times before coming to a stop. Examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the cockpit floor structure and engine firewall. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9522L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276570
- Built
- 1986
- Airframe hours
- 6,074
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360 A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Yellow Jacket Flying Club Inc
- Registered owner
- Yellow Jacket Flying Club Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 2021
- Departed
- PDK · Atlanta, GA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- RYY · Cobb County Intl-Mccollum Fld, runway 09/27, 6,295 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 67 total · 67 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- RYY
- METAR
- METAR KRYY 112050Z VRB03KT 10SM SCT055 28/16 A3020 RMK AO2 SLP219 T02830156 56015 $=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 7, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.7 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 N9522L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.