Cessna 172G N4260L

Summary

On 12 June 2007 at about 17:45 local time, a Cessna 172G registered N4260L, operated by 4260L Corporation, was involved in an accident near Katy, Texas, 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

12 June 2007 at 17:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Katy, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Easterwood Field Airpot (CLL)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 172G

Registration

N4260L

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

4260L Corporation

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Unknown

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Brookshire → Katy

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DFW07CA140

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot's improper flare and his failure to recover from a bounced landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane landed hard, bounced, encountered porpoise, and the nose landing gear collapsed. The 43-hour student pilot reported that he was returning from his first solo cross-country flight. He added that while landing on runway 16, which was reported to be 7,000-foot long, by 150-foot wide, he misjudged the height of the airplane above the runway and the airplane stalled at dropped-in from a height of 10-feet. After the initial bounce, the aircraft began to porpoise, and the nose landing gear collapsed after the second bounce. The pilot attempted to taxi the airplane off the active runway. According to the Federal Aviation Administration inspector, who responded to the accident, the engine firewall sustained structural damage. The impact also fractured the nose gear assembly and buckled the engine firewall. The pilot was uninjured and was able to egress from the airplane unassisted. At the time of the accident, the on-field weather observation station reported the wind from 170 degree at 4 knots.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.