- Date
- November 14, 1992, 13:27 local (18:27 UTC)
- Place
- Okeechobee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9854GCessna 172L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921114046669A
- Case key
- 33196
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's improper flare.
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 private pilot was conducting touch and go landings to the runway. The airplane touched down and ballooned back into the air and started a turn to the right in a nose up attitude. A witness heard an increase in engine power and observed the nose of the airplane pitch down to the left. The left wing tip and nose wheel collided with the runway separating the nose wheel. The airplane bounced, the right wing tip collided with the runway, and the airplane came to a complete stop in the grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9854G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17259754
- Airframe hours
- 5,700
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sjg Enterprises, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Sjg Enterprises, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 13, 1992 · 92 hours before
- Airport
- OBE · Okeechobee County Airport, runway 4, 5,000 × 150 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 145 total · 68 in this make and model · 96 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 18 knots, gusting 22
- 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.