- Date
- April 20, 2022, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Blanding, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46055Cessna 172I
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- 20220420005639A
- Case key
- 104981
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 landing flare which, resulted in a bounced landing and loss of airplane control during an aborted landing in gusty wind conditions.
Findings · 4
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 reported that, during a solo cross-country flight while attempting a landing, the airplane bounced, and a gust of wind raised the right wing. The pilot was able to level the wings, when another gust pushed the airplane off course to the left. The pilot applied full throttle and was able to avoid a barbed wired fence, but then the airplane’s wheels struck wheeled crop irrigation equipment, which resulted in the airplane nosing over, and coming to rest inverted on the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported no preaccident malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46055
- Reported as
- Cessna 172I
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257016
- Built
- 1968
- Airframe hours
- 4,095.16
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320-F2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roadrunner Flight School LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 2022
- Departed
- FMN · Farmington, NM
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BDG · Blanding Municipal Airport, runway 17/35, 5,781 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 51
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 47.7 total · 33.1 in this make and model · 4.7 as pilot in command · 16.4 in the last 90 days · 14.2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KBDG
- METAR
- KBDG 201535Z AUTO 15010G16KT 10SM 16/M11 A3000 RMK AO1 T01571107
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 19, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.1 MB 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.