- Date
- August 10, 1992, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Keene, NH
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N738FWCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920810030289A
- Case key
- 37200
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Probable cause
An inadvertent stall during flap retraction, following an aborted 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 was completing his fifth solo flight. During a low slow approach, he flared high, and added full power to avoid a hard landing. The airplane ballooned upon runway contact and when it did not respond as anticipated, the student pilot started retracting flaps. The airplane began to sink and drift left, eventually impacting the ground 100 feet left of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N738FW
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269952
- Airframe hours
- 4,556
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- J.V. Aircraft
- Registered owner
- J.V. Aircraft
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 20, 1992 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- EEN
- Airport
- EEN · Dillant Hopkins, runway 2, 6,200 × 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 42 total · 32 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 42 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.