Cessna 172P N65645

Summary

On 8 March 2015 at about 16:30 local time, a Cessna 172P registered N65645, operated by Interstate Aviation Inc, was involved in an accident near Newport, Rhode Island, 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

8 March 2015 at 16:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Nearest airport

Newport State (UUU)

Coordinates

41.5325, -71.2817

Aircraft

Cessna 172P

Registration

N65645

Category

Airplane

Year built

1982

Engines

1

Operator

Interstate Aviation Inc

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Plainville → Newport

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA15CA153

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during landing, and his subsequent failure to recover from a bounced landing, which resulted in a hard landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot was conducting a solo flight and landing on a 2,999-foot-long, 75-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During touchdown, the airplane began to bounce, and subsequently landed hard, which resulted in substantial damage to the nose landing gear and firewall. The airplane veered to the left and contacted a snowbank that extended parallel to the runway. The student pilot reported that he did not experience any preaccident malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation. He further reported 43 hours of total flight experience, all in the same make model as the accident airplane, which included 7 hours logged as pilot-in-command.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.