- Date
- July 23, 2011, 10:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Greer, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9402BCessna 175
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20110723016739A
- Case key
- 81356
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 pilot’s improper flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in a nose gear collapse.
Findings · 3
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 pilot reported that he planned to make a touch-and-go landing on a forest service road. He reported that the airplane touched down on the dirt road and bounced twice. After a second bounce, he applied power in an attempt to take off, but the airplane’s nose gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and forward fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he planned to make a touch-and-go landing on a forest service road. He reported that the airplane touched down on the dirt road and bounced. After a second bounce, the pilot applied power in an attempt to reach rotation speed. Shortly after adding power when the airplane was traveling about 30 miles per hour, the airplane’s nose gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and forward fuselage. No mechanical failures or malfunctions were reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9402B
- Reported as
- Cessna 175
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 55202
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360 SER, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Waller William C
- Registered owner
- Waller William C
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Departed
- SOW · Show Low, AZ
- Destination
- Greer, AZ
- Flight plan
- Unknown
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,562 total · 191 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 2, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 318 KB in all.
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 N9402B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.