ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 293633
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| Date: | Saturday 11 June 2005 |
| Time: | 19:00 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172R |
| Owner/operator: | Pigs Can Fly Aviation, LLC |
| Registration: | N2384L |
| MSN: | 17280706 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1999 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360-L2A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Santa Maria, California -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | San Luis Obispo-County Airport, CA (SBP/KSBP) |
| Santa Maria Airport, CA (KSMX) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane landed flat, bounced, and landed hard on the nose wheel causing the propeller to strike the runway and damaging the firewall. The student pilot said that he had landed flat, but the landing was not as hard as some of his past landings. After touching down, the airplane bounced up and porpoised. The pilot added power and then the airplane came down hard on the nose wheel.
Probable Cause: the student pilot's improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB LAX05CA207
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 April 2008 | N2384L | Sterling Flight LLC | 0 | Lake Tahoe Airport, South Lake Tahoe, California | |
sub |
| Bounced on landing | ||||||
| 11 November 2017 | N2384L | Sterling Flight Training Center | 0 | Solano County, Birds Landing, CA | |
non |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Oct-2022 08:30 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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