- Date
- April 20, 2009, 08:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Livermore, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64204Cessna 172P
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 28, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Adminstration
- FAA report
- 20090420006849A
- Case key
- 73704
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot was performing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings on his second supervised solo flight. The airplane landed hard, and bounced back into the air. The pilot added power and released back pressure on the yoke, which resulted in the airplane impacting the runway on the nose landing gear. The forward fuselage and firewall were substantially damaged.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was performing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings on his second supervised solo flight. Upon landing, the airplane landed hard, and bounced back into the air. The pilot added power, and released back pressure on the yoke, which resulted in the airplane impacting the runway on the nose landing gear. The fuselage and firewall were substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64204
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275534
- Airframe hours
- 14,015
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 SERIES, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wollard Aviation Inc., doing business as Ahart Aviation Sevices
- Registered owner
- Michael W Arraiz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 13, 2009 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- LVK · Livermore, CA
- Destination
- LVK · Livermore, CA
- Airport
- LVK · Livermore Municipal Airport, runway 25R, 5,255 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 46 total · 46 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- LVK
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 N64204 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.