- Date
- September 2, 1989, 13:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Bellville, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N13620Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890902033289A
- Case key
- 22912
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
Improper flare by the pilot and his improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in an inadvertent porpoise and subsequent nose gear failure.
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.
Hard landing
Flare - improperCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - inadvertentCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Nose over
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13620
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17262888
- Airframe hours
- 4,911
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jerry B. Street
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DWH · Houston, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OGR · Grawunder, runway 15, 2,480 × 30 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH, 30 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.
Other investigations on N13620 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB LAX94LA173Accident · Minor injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportSanta Maria, CAAn engine failure due to the improper installation and service of an incorrect model magneto by maintenance personnel, and the failure of the pilot-in-command to follow published airplane emergency procedures.NTSB DEN83LA073Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportLeadville, COThe Cessna 172 collided with a snowbank during landing and nosed over. The weather was VMC with light winds from 20 degrees at 3 KTS. One inch of fresh snow was covering the runway. The pilot said he flew the approach to runway 34 with 20 degrees of flaps and…