- Date
- November 8, 2016, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sarasota, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2272CCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20161108018389A
- Case key
- 94374
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 2
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 student pilot reported that, during his third solo flight, he "had a hard landing." He added that he aborted the landing, landed again, and taxied to the ramp without further incident. After shutting the airplane down, he noticed that the propeller and nose landing gear were damaged. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that during his 3rd solo flight he "had a hard landing". He further reported that he aborted the landing, landed again, and taxied to the ramp without further incident. After shutting the airplane down, he noticed that the propeller and nose landing gear were damaged. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2272C
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (S)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9954
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 4,584.5
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cirrus Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Blanco Leasing Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 26, 2016
- Departed
- SRQ · Sarasota, FL
- Destination
- SRQ · Sarasota, FL
- Airport
- SRQ · Sarasota/Bradenton Intl, runway 04, 5,009 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 58 total · 58 in this make and model · 5.8 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 39.2 in the last 30 days · 0.8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KSRQ, 1 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 8, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 MB 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.