- Date
- May 19, 1988, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Graham, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4659GCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880519015839A
- Case key
- 22643
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was on a solo round-robin cross country training flight. He made a hard landing on the nose wheel that resulted in a propeller ground strike and damaged engine firewall. Gusty surface winds prevailed at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4659G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273285
- Airframe hours
- 7,120
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Flyers
- Registered owner
- Ate Of Florida, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 17, 1988
- Departed
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- E15 · Graham Municipal, runway 17, 3,329 × 50 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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 13 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 98 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.