Cessna 175 N6612E

Summary

On 26 January 2006 at about 01:00 local time, a Cessna 175 registered N6612E, operated by Kristopher E. Hoopes, was involved in an accident near Lindsay, Oklahoma, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

26 January 2006 at 01:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Lindsay, Oklahoma, United States

Nearest airport

Lindsay Municipal Airport (K1K2)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 175

Registration

N6612E

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Kristopher E. Hoopes

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Shawnee → Lindsay

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

DFW06LA060

Nobody was injured.

The hard landing was the result of the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed while misjudging the altitude above the runway. Contributing factors were the inadequate quality of the manufacturer's engine-support bracket and the prevailing night conditions.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The 156-hour private pilot stated that during a night flight, he allowed the airplane's airspeed to decrease while flaring too high, resulting in a hard landing. Upon impact with the runway, the upper portion of the firewall separated from the airframe causing the engine to drop downward approximately 30 degrees. A post-accident inspection revealed that the upper left engine support-mount had cracked at the bracket bolt hole, and that the upper right engine attachment rivets had separated from the airframe stringer assembly. The upper engine mount brackets were removed from the airplane and sent to the NTSB Materials Laboratory; the examination revealed that the brackets fractured due to fatigue. The examination also revealed that the metal content of the brackets did not contain the constituent elements of the specified material, and was approximately 40 percent below the specified strength.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.