Cessna R172K N758AR

Summary

On 4 August 2002 at about 17:15 local time, a Cessna R172K registered N758AR was involved in an accident near Monticello, Utah, 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

4 August 2002 at 17:15

Classification

Accident

Location

Monticello, Utah, United States

Nearest airport

Monticello (U43)

Coordinates

37.9791, -109.2899

Aircraft

Cessna R172K

Registration

N758AR

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Moab → Farmington

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DEN02LA087

Nobody was injured.

the student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing factors include the porpoise and subsequent bounced landing and the student pilot's lack of total experience.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot was on a solo cross-country flight and was conducting a touch-and-go landing at an enroute airport. The approach was "normal with slight turbulence and a quartering headwind." His flare was "straight down the runway, however [he] struck the nose wheel first and started to porpoise." The airplane porpoised several times and struck the edge of the runway hard, collapsing the nose landing gear and buckling the firewall. He maneuvered the airplane back on to the runway and taxied it to the parking area.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.