- Date
- January 25, 2019, 16:15 local (Jan 26, 2019, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Troutdale, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N736QVCessna R172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190125000349A
- Case key
- 98973
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain the proper pitch attitude during touchdown, which resulted in a bounced landing and subsequent propeller strike.
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 solo student pilot reported that, after completing touch-and-go maneuvers in the pattern with her flight instructor, the flight instructor deplaned. The student then completed three more touch-and-go landings, but on the final landing, the airplane touched down nose first and then bounced. She attempted to go around, but the airplane bounced again, and the propeller struck the runway. She maneuvered the airplane back to the ramp without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount frame, mounts, and nose landing gear tunnel. The student reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that, after completing touch and go maneuvers in the pattern with her flight instructor, the flight instructor deplaned. The student then completed three more touch and goes but on the final landing, the airplane touched down nose first and bounced. She attempted to go around but the airplane bounced again, and the propeller struck the runway. She maneuvered the airplane back to the ramp without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount frame, mounts and nose landing gear tunnel. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N736QV
- Reported as
- Cessna R172 (K)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1722713
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 3,605.4
- Engine
- Continental IO-360, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 15, 2018
- Departed
- TTD · Portland, OR
- Destination
- TTD · Troutdale, OR
- Airport
- TTD · Portland-Troutdale, runway 25, 5,399 × 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
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 133 total · 85 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.78 inHg
- Observed at
- KTTD
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 13, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.3 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.
Other investigations on N736QV · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.