- Date
- July 29, 1989, 13:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Carson City, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9598HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890729034049A
- Case key
- 41065
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper compensation for wind conditions, and improper recovery from a bounced landing. Factors related to the accident were: the adverse wind condition and the student's lack of total flying experience.
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
At the end of a x-country flt, the acft was on a short final apch to land, when the student pilot noted a x-wind. He tried to correct the situation; however, about 10 ft above the rwy, the acft's sink rate increased. Subsequently, it touched down nose wheel first & porpoised several times before the plt regained control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9598H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266256
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leonard M. Williamson
- Departed
- TRK · Truckee, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- O04 · Carson, runway 27, 5,900 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 17 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 13 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RNV, 18 nm away
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 N9598H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.