- Date
- January 21, 1996, 14:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Norman, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76067Cessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 17, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960121000879A
- Case key
- 19750
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Probable cause
the student pilot's improper level-off during landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During landing, on his first solo flight, the student allowed the aircraft to porpoise. The final touchdown was on the nose wheel which collapsed.
Factual narrative
On January 21, 1996, at 1415 central standard time, a Cessna 172N, N76067, landed hard at Max Westheimer Airport, Norman, Oklahoma. The student solo pilot was not injured and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this instructional flight operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The local flight originated at 1330.
According to the Chief Pilot, this was the student's first solo flight and he became confused in the pattern and set up for landing on runway 21 rather than runway 17 which had been assigned by ATC. When this problem was corrected, according to the chief pilot, the student's approach was fast and the aircraft bounced on landing. A porpoise ensued and the final touch down was on the nose wheel which collapsed resulting in damage to the propeller, firewall and engine mounts in addition to the nose wheel damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76067
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17268111
- Airframe hours
- 4,283
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Airmen Flight School, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 21, 1995 · 93 hours before
- Departed
- OUN
- Airport
- OUN · Max Westheimer, runway 17, 5,200 × 100 ft, concrete
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 79 total · 79 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OKC, 1 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.