- Date
- March 9, 1991, 15:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64599Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910309005179A
- Case key
- 41398
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Probable cause
A hard landing due to the pilot's midjudgement of his touchdown.
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 observed a bent propeller tip while he was securing the aircraft. He stated that he had encountered a gust while landing and had landed somewhat hard. The firewall of the aircraft was also damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64599
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275589
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wings Aloft, Inc
- Departed
- TIW · Tacoma, WA
- Airport
- BFI · Boeing Field, runway 13, 10,001 × 200 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 10 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.