- Date
- January 26, 2008, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Westiminster, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N65329Cessna 172S
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Baltimore FSDO
- FAA report
- 20080126013669I
- Case key
- 67591
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot stated he was in left closed traffic for landing. He flared the airplane high, landed hard, and the airplane began to porpoise down the runway. The propeller collided with the runway and the firewall was buckled. The student pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The student pilot stated he was in left closed traffic for landing. He flared the airplane high, landed hard, and the airplane began to porpoise down the runway. The propeller collided with the runway and the firewall was buckled. This accident was reported late to the NTSB on February 29, 2008.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65329
- Reported as
- Cessna 172S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9702
- Airframe hours
- 2,072
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Pilot Services
- Registered owner
- Coppeler Enterprises LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 1, 2007 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- KDMW · Westiminster, MD
- Destination
- KDMW
- Airport
- KDMW · Carroll County Regional, runway 34, 5,100 × 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 57
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 49 in this make and model · 34 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- KBWI, 30 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 N65329 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.