- Date
- May 7, 2008, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Homestead, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N513JGCessna 172SP
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20080507836259A
- Case key
- 68058
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's inadequate remedial action.
Findings · 3
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 certificated flight instructor and student pilot were performing touch-and-go landings in a Cessna 172SP. The airplane made "hard contact" with the runway during a landing attempt. The student pilot immediately applied full power and aborted the landing. The flight instructor and student then continued to their home airport, where they landed uneventfully. Subsequent examination of the airplane revealed that the firewall and landing gear were substantially damaged.
Factual narrative
The certificated flight instructor and student pilot were performing touch and go landings in a Cessna 172SP. According to the flight instructor, the airplane made "hard contact" with the runway during a landing attempt. The student pilot immediately applied full power and aborted the landing. The flight instructor and student then continued to their home airport, where they landed uneventfully. Subsequent examination of the airplane revealed that the firewall and landing gear were substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N513JG
- Reported as
- Cessna 172SP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9692
- Airframe hours
- 1,889
- Engine
- Textron Lycoming IO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Dean International, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Guarch Airways, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 1, 2008
- Departed
- TMB · Miami, FL
- Destination
- X51 · Homestead, FL
- Airport
- X51 · Homestead, runway 09, 2,997 × 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,182 total · 127 in this make and model · 1,952 as pilot in command · 144 in the last 90 days · 48 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 57 total · 50 in this make and model · 0 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.87 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 11 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 11, 2008, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.3 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N513JG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.