- Date
- October 6, 1983, 11:25 local (15:25 UTC)
- Place
- Spring Valley, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96103Cessna C-172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831006053179A
- Case key
- 35448
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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 student pilot, on a solo instructional flt landed hard and bounced off the rwy. The student plt was not injured but the acft received damage to the main and nose gear, the propeller, firewall, wing root and the engine cowling.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96103
- Reported as
- Cessna C-172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276022
- Airframe hours
- 289
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tag Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1983 · 64 hours before
- Airport
- N24 · Ramapo Valley
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 34 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 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.