- Date
- April 16, 2008, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Salisbury, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N52415Cessna 182P
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20080416856969A
- Case key
- 68561
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare during landing.
Findings · 1
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 had completed four successful takeoffs and landings with her instructor. The instructor then exited the airplane and the student pilot completed her first solo takeoff and landing uneventfully. During her second solo landing, the flare was improper and the airplane landed hard. The propeller made contact with the runway, damaging the firewall.
Factual narrative
The responding Federal Aviation Administration inspector stated that the student pilot of the Cessna 182 had flown with her instructor for a total of four successful takeoffs and landings, to a full stop, on the day of the accident. Her instructor exited the airplane for the student pilot's first solo flight. She then performed a successful takeoff and landing. She taxied the airplane to the takeoff runway for her second departure. During the second landing, the flare was improper and the airplane landed hard, damaging the propeller and firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52415
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18262591
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental O-470-L, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Alison L. Raffaldt
- Registered owner
- Here There and In The Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RUQ · Salisbury, NC
- Destination
- RUQ
- Airport
- RUQ · Rowan County Airport, runway 02, 5,500 × 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 70 total · 70 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- RUQ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.