- Date
- July 9, 1989, 15:25 local (20:25 UTC)
- Place
- Crystal, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6938HCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890709021089A
- Case key
- 34829
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Probable cause
Aircraft control was not maintained by the pilot in command, due to an improper landing flare which resulted in several bounces. The landing gear failed in overload during the bounced landing.
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 pvt plt said that upon arriving at his destination apt after a personal cross country flt, he bounced several times before the nose gear collapsed. The acft slid to a stop about two thirds down runway 13. The local winds were from 140 degrees at about 16 knots gusting to 26. The pilot said that he felt his final approach speed was too great.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6938H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265654
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Yankee Flying Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- STC · St. Cloud, MN
- Destination
- MIC
- Airport
- MIC · Crystal, runway 19, 3,264 × 75 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 188 total · 88 in this make and model · 179 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 16 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIC, 1 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.