- Date
- June 8, 2020, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lubbock, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N92356Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20200608004019A
- Case key
- 101551
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper approach and descent rate, which resulted in a hard 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 solo student pilot reported that during landing, the airplane landed hard. The pilot subsequently taxied the airplane to the ramp without further incident. The forward fuselage, aft of the firewall was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. .
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that during landing, the airplane landed hard. The pilot subsequently taxied the airplane to the ramp without further incident. The forward fuselage, aft of the firewall was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92356
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17261567
- Built
- 1973
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 ED2, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hub City Aviation Academy LLC
- Registered owner
- Hub City Aviation Academy LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 28, 2020
- Departed
- LBB · Lubbock, TX
- Destination
- MAF · Midland, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- LBB · Lubbock Preston Smith Intl, runway 17R, 11,500 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 78 total · 54 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.76 inHg
- Observed at
- KLBB
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 9, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 881 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 N92356 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.