Cessna 172 N7880G

Summary

On 17 July 2018 at about 17:00 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N7880G, operated by Nashville Flight Training, was involved in an accident near Nashville, Tennessee, 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

17 July 2018 at 17:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nearest airport

Nashville Intl (BNA)

Coordinates

36.1244, -86.6781

Aircraft

Cessna 172

Registration

N7880G

Category

Airplane

Year built

1970

Engines

1

Operator

Nashville Flight Training

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Gallatin → Nashville

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA18CA428

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

. The pilot reported that, during his solo flight, he made an approach, but the airplane's airspeed was fast. He intended to float along the 8,000-ft-long runway, extending the distance to touchdown, because he wanted to exit at the taxiway near the end of the runway. During the landing flare, he misperceived the airplane's height above the runway because the runway was 50 ft wider than his departure airport's runway. He added that the airplane sank, touched down on the main landing gear, and then bounced. The pilot reported that he panicked and applied back pressure to the yoke, "thinking that it would slow...[the airplane] down." The airplane bounced several times, and he applied forward pressure to the yoke "to get some forward momentum to flare again," but the airplane settled on the runway. During taxi, the pilot felt something was wrong with the nosewheel but continued to taxi to the hangar. The airplane sustained substantial damage the lower engine mounts. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.