- Date
- April 20, 1987, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hawthorne, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73614Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25592
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During a solo instructional flight, the student pilot was practicing touch and go landings. He noticed as the flight progressed, that there was some gusting conditions aloft and that the wind direction was varying. On the last landing the aircraft touched down hard, became airborne, then touched down a second time. The pilot was able to taxi the aircraft to the parking ramp.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73614
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267578
- Airframe hours
- 3,582
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- A & J Wings Partnership
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HHR · Hawthorne, CA
- Airport
- HHR · Hawthorne, runway 25, 4,956 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 70
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 40 in this make and model · 32 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 9 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Other investigations on N73614 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.