- Date
- August 22, 2025, 16:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Spring Hill, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2460ACessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- 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
- 20250822012289A
- Case key
- 200894
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing and substantial damage to the airplane’s fuselage.
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 was on his second solo flight in the airport traffic pattern practicing takeoffs and landings. During his second touch-and-go attempt, as he was landing, the airplane bounced several times, resulting in substantial damage to the underside of the fuselage. The pilot stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2460A
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280932
- Built
- 2000
- Airframe hours
- 12,279
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360 SER, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- American Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 17, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BKV · Brooksville-Tampa Bay Rgnl, runway 27, 7,001 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 28.6 total · 28.6 in this make and model · 1.1 as pilot in command · 5.8 in the last 90 days · 1.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- BKV
- METAR
- KBKV 222353Z 24003KT 10SM FEW090 28/24 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP140 T02830239 10322 20283 53005
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.1 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 N2460A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.