- Date
- November 4, 2000, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Inverness, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N54729Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 30, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20001104032849A
- Case key
- 50599
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Probable cause
a loss of directional control on landing due to the pilot's failure to execute a proper flare and recovery from the resultant bounced landing, causing the airplane to depart the runway, enter the uneven grass infield, and sustain a nose over.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student was conducting a landing to Inverness' runway 19, and after 2 balked landing attempts due to excessive airspeed, his third attempt resulted in a bounced landing and an excursion off the right runway edge. The airplane continued through the infield grass until encountering a depression that caused the propeller and nose landing gear to dig into the earth, resulting in a noseover. There were no mechanical defects with the airplane, precrash, and the student was not injured.
Factual narrative
On November 4, 2000, about 1500 eastern standard time, a Cessna 172P, N54729, registered to Airline Training Academy, Inc., operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, crashed while attempting a landing at the Inverness Airport, Inverness, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a VFR flight plan was filed. The student pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured, and the airplane received substantial damage. The flight originated from Orlando's Executive Airport about 1 hour 14 minutes before the accident.
According to the student, he made two balked landing go-arounds because he thought he was too fast. His third landing attempt resulted in a bounced landing and an excursion off the right side of the runway. A depression in the grass area caused the propeller to dig in, and the airplane sustained a nose over.
According to an FAA inspector, the pilot landed the airplane on runway 19 at Inverness and departed the runway to the right at about a 30-degree angle. A depression in the ground caused the nose landing gear to dig in, and the airplane flipped upside down. The airplane received substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54729
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275040
- Airframe hours
- 10,481
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- AirlineTraining Academy, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 20, 2000 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- ORL · Orlando, FL
- Destination
- X40 · Inverness, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- X40 · Inverness, runway 19, 3,762 × 60 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 59 total · 59 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 59 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- BKV, 24 nm away
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 N54729 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.