- Date
- May 19, 1983, 09:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Collegeville, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5302KCessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830519023039A
- Case key
- 35185
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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 acft made a hard landing after which it swerved off the runway and collided with trees. The pilot was on a solo instructional flight and was landing on runway 27. As the acft touched down hard it bounced and left the confines of therunway. The acft traveled down an embankment as the landing gear contacted some small trees. The acft was destroyed but the student pilot escaped injury.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5302K
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172-4054
- Airframe hours
- 1,253
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harold Schwartz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 26, 1983 · 41 hours before
- Departed
- N10 · Collegeville, PA
- Destination
- N10 · Collegeville, PA
- Airport
- N10 · Perkiomen Valley, runway 27, 2,870 × 40 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- 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.