- Date
- March 15, 1988, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Prescott, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N918ERCessna 172Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880315006399A
- Case key
- 25967
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - poorCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N918ER
- Reported as
- Cessna 172Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275933
- Airframe hours
- 7,421
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-AN4, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Embry-Riddle Aero Univ.
- Registered owner
- Cessna Finance Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · March 8, 1988 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- PRC
- Destination
- PRC
- Airport
- PRC · Ernest A. Love, runway 21, 7,616 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 87 total · 87 in this make and model · 33 as pilot in command · 59 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PRC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.