- Date
- December 9, 2000, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Sterling, KY
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N80854Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001209040549A
- Case key
- 51308
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was practicing solo takeoffs and landings to Runway 03. During one of the landings, in the flare, the airplane 'ballooned'. The student pilot failed to apply corrective action, and the nose gear struck the runway. The airplane then began to 'porpoise,' and travel off the left side of the runway. The nose gear dug into grass, and the airplane came to rest inverted. The reported winds at the airport, about the time of the accident, were from 090 degrees at 6 knots.
Factual narrative
On December 9, 2000, about 1300 Eastern Standard Time, a Cessna 172M, N80854, was substantially damaged while landing at the Montgomery County Airport (IOB), Mount Sterling, Kentucky. The certificated student pilot received minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the local instructional flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
The student pilot departed IOB solo about 1230, to practice takeoffs and landings. The student pilot stated that while landing on Runway 03, in the flare, "...the plane ballooned and I did not correct for it." He added that the nose gear struck the runway, and the airplane "porpoised." The airplane then traveled off the left side of the runway. The nose gear dug into the grass, and the airplane came to rest inverted.
The student pilot reported that he had approximately 56 hours of total flight experience; of which, about 20 hours were solo experience.
The reported winds at IOB, at 1245, were 090 degrees at 6 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80854
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266773
- Airframe hours
- 7,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kentucky Airmotive
- Registered owner
- Hill Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 30, 2000 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- IOB
- Airport
- IOB · Montgomery County Airport, runway 3, 5,002 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 56 total · 32 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IOB
FAA reports on this event · 1
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