- Date
- September 4, 2005, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- San Manuel, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N53056Cessna 172S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20050904022599A
- Case key
- 62510
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudged flare during a touch-and-go landing.
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
During a touch-and-go landing the airplane landed hard on the nose wheel causing the propeller to strike the runway and damaging the firewall. The pilot said that he looked at the instruments on short final approach then looked up and saw the runway "rushing up faster that it should have been." The pilot flared but the airplane touched down nose wheel first, then bounced back into the air. The pilot applied power, executed a go-around and flew the airplane back to his departure airport. The damage was discovered after landing.
Factual narrative
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Aircraft
- Registration
- N53056
- Reported as
- Cessna 172S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9261
- Airframe hours
- 1,774.6
- Engine
- Textron Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- CRM Flyers, Inc., doing business as Arizona Flightworks
- Registered owner
- T & B Aviation, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · August 1, 2005 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- E77 · San Manuel, AZ
- Destination
- KSDL · Scottsdale, AZ
- Airport
- E77 · San Manuel Airport, runway 29, 4,200 × 75 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
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 333 total · 169 in this make and model · 42 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.