- Date
- August 24, 2003, 13:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Riverside, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N64291Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 25, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20030824026099A
- Case key
- 57806
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Probable cause
The student pilot's misjudged distance and altitude, and the instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight. Also causal was the instructor's delayed remedial action.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The airplane collided with terrain during landing. The pilots were practicing a short field landing with the student pilot at the controls. The airplane got low on short final. The CFI recognized that the airplane was too low, took over the airplane controls, and simultaneously added power and raised the nose. The airplane struck a berm that led up to the approach threshold of the runway. The airplane bounced and came to rest on the approach end of runway.
Factual narrative
On August 24, 2003, about 1320 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 172M, N64291, collided with terrain during the landing approach at Riverside Municipal Airport, Riverside, California. The airplane was operated by the owner/student pilot under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The certified flight instructor (CFI) and student pilot were not injured, and the airplane was substantially damaged. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a flight plan had not been filed. The flight originated at Corona Municipal Airport, Corona, California, about 1240.
In a written statement, the CFI stated that he and the student were practicing a short field landing with the student pilot at the controls. The student pilot allowed the airplane to get too low on final. The CFI recognized that the airplane was too low, took over the airplane controls, simultaneously adding power and raising the nose. The airplane struck a berm that led up to the approach threshold of runway 27. The airplane bounced and came to rest on the approach end of runway 27.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64291
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265144
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320E2D, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edward Parks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- AJO · Corona, CA
- Destination
- RAL · Riverside, CA
- Airport
- KRAL · Riverside Municipal, runway 27
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 2,030 total · 510 in this make and model · 125 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 16 in this make and model · 8 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.