- Date
- July 23, 2001, 18:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dayton, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N52012Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20010723022639A
- Case key
- 52800
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Probable cause
The pilot excessive flare, which resulted in a hard 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 student pilot departed for right closed traffic. The pilot completed the crosswind, downwind, base, and final legs of the pattern. Once over the runway, the pilot flared and over rotated the airplane. The airplane touched down hard, the nose wheel contacted the ground, bursting the tire. The airplane came to a stop on the right side of the runway, and the pilot egressed.
Factual narrative
On July 23, 2001, about 1845 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172, N52012, was substantially damaged while landing at the Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport (MGY), Dayton, Ohio. The student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local instructional flight. No flight plan was filed, and the flight was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
According to the pilot, he departed runway 20 for right closed traffic. He completed the crosswind, downwind, base, and final legs of the pattern. Once over the runway, the pilot flared and over rotated the airplane. The airplane touched down hard, and the nose wheel contacted the ground bursting the tire. The airplane came to a stop on the right side of the runway, and the pilot egressed.
Examination of the airframe by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the nose section and firewall had been substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52012
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274393
- Airframe hours
- 11,221
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aircraft Sales, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 13, 2001 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- DAY · Dayton, OH
- Airport
- MGY · Dayton General Arpt South, runway 20, 5,000 × 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 66 total · 66 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 66 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Observed at
- MGY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.