Cessna 172R N2462T

Summary

On 9 April 2001 at about 17:30 local time, a Cessna 172R registered N2462T was involved in an accident near Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

9 April 2001 at 17:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States

Nearest airport

Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM)

Coordinates

42.7169, -71.1233

Aircraft

Cessna 172R

Registration

N2462T

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Lawrence → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

IAD01LA042

Nobody was injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot was practicing touch-and-go landings in the traffic pattern. He performed two landings uneventfully, and during the third landing the student pilot "flared too early," the airplane bounced twice, and then hit hard on the nose gear. The nose gear sheared off, and the airplane departed the left side of the runway. No mechanical malfunctions of the airplane were observed. The student pilot reported 55 hours of total flight experience in the accident airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.