ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292541
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| Date: | Tuesday 21 March 2006 |
| Time: | 13:30 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172RG |
| Owner/operator: | American Flyers Of Texas |
| Registration: | N616SF |
| MSN: | 172RG0740 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360-F1A6 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bridgeport, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Bridgeport Municipal Airport, TX (KXBP) |
| Bridgeport Municipal Airport, TX (KXBP) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The 645-hour flight instructor was providing flight instruction to a 173-hour private pilot as part of his training towards a commercial pilot certificate. During their third landing, while practicing take offs and landings on runway 35, the pilot receiving instruction started to lose directional control of the single-engine airplane while attempting to land the nose-wheel equipped airplane with a prevailing crosswind. The instructor immediately and repeatedly told the pilot receiving instruction to abort the landing and initiate a go-around. The flight instructor reported that while attempting to initiate a go-around, the pilot receiving instruction inadvertently retracted the landing gear instead of retracting the flaps. The airplane subsequently settled hard onto the runway, coming to an abrupt stop on the runway. The winds at the time of the mishap were reported by the flight instructor to be from the northwest at 15 knots, gusting to 19 knots. Runway 35 was reported to be 4,004-feet long, by 60-feet wide. Examination of the airplane revealed structural damage to the lower bulkhead.
Probable Cause: The flight instructor's delayed remedial action to regain control of the airplane while landing in a crosswind, and the inadvertent retraction of the landing gear by the pilot receiving instruction while executing a go-around. A factor was the prevailing crosswind.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB DFW06CA106
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 08-Oct-2022 19:53 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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