- Date
- March 6, 2016, 09:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6023VCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 15, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160306024339A
- Case key
- 92994
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to maintain pitch control while landing, which resulted in a hard landing, loss of directional control, and runway excursion.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The solo student pilot reported that the airplane bounced after touched down, then veered off the runway to the left and came to a stop in gravel. A postaccident exam revealed substantial damage to the firewall. According to the student pilot there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that the airplane bounced after touched down, then veered off the runway to the left and came to a stop in gravel. A postaccident exam revealed substantial damage to the firewall. According to the student pilot there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6023V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (S)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S10198
- Built
- 2006
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sawyer Aviation
- Registered owner
- Sawyer Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SDL · Scottsdale, AZ
- Destination
- SDL · Scottsdale, AZ
- Airport
- SDL · Scottsdale, runway 03, 8,249 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display
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
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days · 1.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KSDL
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 31, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 628 KB in all.
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 N6023V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.