- Date
- May 25, 2024, 09:53 local (16:53 UTC)
- Place
- Livermore, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6003FCessna 162
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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
- Case key
- 194325
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Probable cause
The flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and abnormal contact with the runway. Contributing to the accident was the student pilot’s improper landing flare and go-around.
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 flight instructor of the airplane reported that, during the landing flare, the student pilot flared too high. The flight instructor directed the student pilot to initiate a go-around. The student pilot raised the airplane’s nose but did not advance the throttle to takeoff power. The flight instructor assumed control of the airplane, applied full power, and retracted the flaps to 25°. Subsequently, the airplane aerodynamically stalled and impacted the runway surface, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing and empennage. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6003F
- Reported as
- Cessna 162
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16200125
- Built
- 2011
- Airframe hours
- 482.5
- Engine
- Continental O-200-D, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ionaj Inc
- Registered owner
- Ionaj Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 7, 2023
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- LVK · Livermore Municipal Airport, runway 25L, 2,699 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 7, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,208.8 total · 28.4 in this make and model · 1,128.5 as pilot in command · 253.3 in the last 90 days · 91.7 in the last 30 days · 1.9 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5.8 total · 5.8 in this make and model · 5.8 in the last 90 days · 5.8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KLVK
- METAR
- METAR KLVK 251653Z 26010KT 10SM BKN015 OVC022 14/10 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP161 T01390100=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 25, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.2 MB in all.