- Date
- July 8, 1991, 08:20 local (15:20 UTC)
- Place
- Minden, NV
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9598HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910708026559A
- Case key
- 27277
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the student pilot during a simulated emergency.
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 simulated soft field, obstacle clearance takeoff at about 60 feet above the ground, the flight instructor gave his student a simulated forced landing. At about 20 feet above the runway during the simulated forced landing glide, the instructor noted a high sink rate and took the aircraft controls. The aircraft landed hard; bounced back in the air; and landed hard again. During the second contact, the right wing contacted the runway causing the aircraft to turn right by about 45 degrees. The instructor, noting that his aircraft was traveling toward some aircraft parked to his front, maneuvered the aircraft off the runway to avoid a collision. About 100 feet after departing the runway, the aircraft hit a ditch and came to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9598H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266256
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Plane Fun Flight School
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 004 · Carson City, NV
- Airport
- MEV · Douglas County, runway 34, 7,400 × 100 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 533 total · 198 in this make and model · 464 as pilot in command · 101 in the last 90 days · 79 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 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.
Other investigations on N9598H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.