- Date
- June 3, 2019, 09:50 local (13:50 UTC)
- Place
- Culpeper, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1930VCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 13, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190603005619A
- Case key
- 99547
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a porpoised 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 he was conducting the first landing of the second solo flight in the pattern. During the landing, the airplane bounced four times. The student taxied the airplane off the runway and shut down the engine. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mounts. The student reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that it was the first landing, of the second solo flight in the pattern. During the landing, the airplane bounced four times. The student pilot felt that the propeller and the nose landing gear had sustained damage and taxied off the runway and shut down the engine. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mounts. The student pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1930V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17263798
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 1,557
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 -E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Aviation, LLC
- Registered owner
- Geoffrey E. Peterson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 18, 2018
- Departed
- CJR · Culpeper, VA
- Destination
- CJR · Culpeper, VA
- Airport
- CJR · Culpeper Rgnl, runway 22, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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
- 18
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19.5 total · 17.7 in this make and model · 0.8 as pilot in command · 19.5 in the last 90 days · 19.5 in the last 30 days · 1.3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KHWY, 8 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 18, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.3 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.