- Date
- May 28, 1991, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Willits, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1407UCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910528020149A
- Case key
- 27233
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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Probable cause
That the pilot misjudged the flare and failed to properly recover from a bounced landing. Contributing to this accident was entering into an inadvertent porpoise.
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 pilot was completing a personal flight from concord, California, and misjudged the flare, landed hard and bounced. The pilot failed to recover from the bounced landing and the airplane porpoised 3 times before coming to a stop on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1407U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267077
- Engine
- Continental O-320-EZ, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Nri, Inc., Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Nri, Inc., Flying Club
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- CCR · Concord, CA
- Airport
- 028 · Willits, runway 34, 3,000 × 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 253 total · 73 in this make and model · 157 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.