- Date
- October 21, 1992, 21:30 local (Oct 22, 1992, 03:30 UTC)
- Place
- Las Cruces, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N13710Cessna 177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921021043119A
- Case key
- 18604
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Probable cause
The pilot's delayed landing flare and the improper bounced landing recovery. A factor was the dark night.
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
A pilot entered the traffic pattern to complete three night landings prior to carrying a passenger on a night cross country flight. While executing a normal approach with the aid of the VASI, the airplane landed hard, bounced and porpoised 3 or 4 times prior to coming to a stop at the edge of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13710
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702456
- Airframe hours
- 2,411
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Neill, Dixie Lee
- Registered owner
- Neill, Dixie Lee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1992 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- LRU
- Destination
- LRU
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- LRU · Las Cruces Municipal, runway 26, 6,073 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 282 total · 132 in this make and model · 200 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.