- Date
- May 14, 1990, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Granville, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N80104Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900514015849A
- Case key
- 36643
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Probable cause
The improper recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in loss of control and collision with a ditch.
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
After a period of dual instruction, the student was authorized to conduct his second solo flight. During landing, the pilot said that he was established on final and just prior to flare the aircraft experienced a rapid sink rate. The aircraft touched down hard, bounced and touched again at the edge of the runway. It then rolled off the end, collided with a ditch and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80104
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 66370
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- High Country Helicopters,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- B01 · Grandville, NY
- Airport
- B01 · Granville, runway 34, 2,500 × 50 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots, gusting 4
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 39 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.