- Date
- October 14, 2021, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Inverness, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3299TCessna 177
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- 20211014020149A
- Case key
- 104140
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 pilots inadequate recovery from a wind gust during landing, which resulted in a hard landing and substantial damage to the fuselage.
Findings · 4
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 reported that after he crossed the runway threshold, he reduced power then encountered a gust of wind that caused the airplane to balloon between 50 and 100 ft. He reduced pitch, added about 100 rpm, then took that amount out, but the airplane landed hard, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. He stopped the airplane, secured the engine and the airplane was towed to the ramp. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3299T
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700599
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 2,904.97
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviation Trust Company LLC Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 7, 2021
- Departed
- BKV · Brooksville, FL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- INF · Inverness Airport, runway 01, 5,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 2, 2020
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 473 total · 40 in this make and model · 377 as pilot in command · 83 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 488 total · 0 in this make and model · 334 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,300 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Turbulence
- Moderate
- Observed at
- KINF, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KINF 141635Z AUTO 7SM BKN033 OVC041 29/22 A2999 RMK AO2
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 13, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 12.8 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.