- Date
- May 19, 1982, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Las Cruces, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N54488Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 19, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820519016819A
- Case key
- 71374
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The student pilot reported that during landing, the airspeed was too high. Reportedly, the aircraft touched down hard on all three gear, propoised, and subsequently, the plane was damaged. The wind was reported as light and variable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54488
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274986
- Airframe hours
- 312
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Allene Guffey
- Registered owner
- R.L. Guffey, Inc.
- Departed
- LRU · Las Cruces, NM
- Destination
- LRU · Las Cruces, NM
- Airport
- LRU · Las Cruces, runway 26, 6,071 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 47 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.