- Date
- June 4, 2008, 12:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bremerton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N52807Cessna 172P
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20080604838349A
- Case key
- 68178
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Findings · 1
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 was practicing touch-and-go landings on his first solo flight. After one successful touch-and-go landing, he made a second approach. He maintained 65 knots, lowered 30 degrees of flaps, and followed the glide path. After the airplane touched down on the main gear, it ballooned and the student pilot applied slight forward pressure on the yoke. The nose gear and propeller struck the ground, and the airplane bounced back into the air. He lost control of the airplane as the nose gear and propeller struck the runway several more times. He braked heavily, and the airplane skidded to the side of the runway before stopping.
Factual narrative
In a written statement, the student pilot reported that he was practicing touch-and-go landings on his first solo flight. After one successful touch-and-go landing, he made a second approach. He maintained 65 knots, lowered 30 degrees of flaps, and followed the glide path. After landing, the airplane ballooned and the student pilot applied slight forward pressure on the yoke. The propeller struck the ground, and the airplane bounced back into the air. He was unable to pull back on the yoke because it would not move, and the propeller struck the ground again. He lost control of the airplane as the propeller struck several more times. He braked heavily, and the airplane skidded to the side of the runway before stopping. The pilot indicated that the airplane had no mechanical failures or malfunctions during the flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52807
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274611
- Airframe hours
- 1,388
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wings Aloft, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Lawrence E. Day
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 1, 2008
- Departed
- KPWT · Bremerton, WA
- Airport
- KPWT · Bremerton National Airport, runway 01, 6,000 × 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 0 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F
- Observed at
- PWT
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 N52807 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.