- Date
- March 18, 1994, 08:10 local (14:10 UTC)
- Place
- Flippin, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6654HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940318007179A
- Case key
- 19021
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Probable cause
The student pilot's premature flare and the resultant inadvertent stall.
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 flared too high and stalled the airplane above the threshold. Subsequently landed hard damaging the airframe and firewall.
Factual narrative
On March 18, 1994, at 0810 central standard time, a Cessna 172M, N6654H, was substantially damaged during landing near Flippin, Arkansas. The student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the solo instructional flight.
In his Pilot/Operator Report and in an interview with a Federal Aviation Administration inspector, the pilot stated that on approach he initiated the flare too high and "stalled above the runway." The stall resulted in a "hard landing" damaging the airframe and fire wall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6654H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265525
- Airframe hours
- 1,757
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ozark Regional Flight Ser. Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 28, 1994 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- BPK · Mountain Home, AR
- Airport
- FLP · Marion County Regional, runway 4, 4,120 × 75 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 18 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HRO, 20 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 N6654H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.