- Date
- October 15, 1993, 10:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Co. Springs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5191FCessna 172F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 1, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19931015039489A
- Case key
- 18952
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Probable cause
An encounter with wake turbulence during the landing flare. A factor was lack of total pilot experience.
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 student pilot, on his first solo flight, was cleared for a touch and go landing following the landing of a C-130 aircraft. During the flare, the aircraft pitched up and rolled to the right. During an attempt to regain control, the aircraft struck a taxiway sign and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On October 15, 1993, at 1015 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 172F, N5191F, collided with the ground during landing on runway 17R at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The student pilot was uninjured and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the student pilot's first solo flight and no flight plan was filed.
The student was following a C-130 aircraft for his first touch and go landing. The tower reported the winds to be calm and cleared the student for a touch and go landing on runway 17R. The controller instructed the student to follow a C-130 aircraft on final to that runway. As the student pilot was entering the flare, the aircraft pitched up and rolled right. According to the student, as he began to regain control, the aircraft struck a taxiway sign and nosed over. The distance and time between the C-130 landing and the student landing could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5191F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17253152
- Airframe hours
- 9,134
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- U. S. Air Force Hq Atc Dmmr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 16, 1993 · 36 hours before
- Airport
- COS · Colorado Springs, runway 17R, 11,021 × 150 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.