Cessna 172L N7582G

Summary

On 7 April 2009 at about 20:00 local time, a Cessna 172L registered N7582G, operated by Mickelson Delbert, was involved in an accident near Richland, Washington, 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

7 April 2009 at 20:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Richland, Washington, United States

Nearest airport

Richland (RLD)

Coordinates

46.3056, -119.3042

Aircraft

Cessna 172L

Registration

N7582G

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Mickelson Delbert

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Richland → Richland

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

WPR09CA185

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 pilot reported that he had not flown an airplane during the previous 6 months and that he intended to acquire currency by performing a series of stop-and-go landings. The pilot took off and performed the first landing without mishap. According to the pilot, during the second approach he flared out too high. Thereafter, the airplane impacted the runway in a nose-low attitude and bounced. The second contact occurred while in a nose-low attitude. After the hard landing, the pilot taxied off the runway and parked his airplane. A subsequent structural examination of the airplane revealed that the nose gear assembly was broken and the lower portion of the firewall was buckled.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.