Cessna 170 N8335A

Summary

On 10 September 2016 at about 19:00 local time, a Cessna 170 registered N8335A, operated by Frontier Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditionin, was involved in an accident near Sidney, Montana, United States. 3 people were 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

10 September 2016 at 19:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Sidney, Montana, United States

Nearest airport

Sidney-Richland Municipal Airp (SDY)

Coordinates

47.7069, -104.1925

Aircraft

Cessna 170

Registration

N8335A

Category

Airplane

Year built

1952

Engines

1

Operator

Frontier Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditionin

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Poplar → Sidney

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA16CA492

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing, and the flight instructor’s inability to recover the airplane, which resulted in a runway excursion.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight instructor reported that, during the instructional flight in a tailwheel-equipped airplane, the student pilot bounced the landing. The airplane bounced off the grass airstrip, and the flight instructor took the flight controls, but the airplane drifted to the left and into a drainage ditch. The flight instructor reported that he corrected with right rudder application to ease the airplane out of the ditch, but the left landing gear tire deflated, and the left wing and the tail struck the ground. The airplane yawed to the left, the instructor corrected the yaw, and the airplane rolled onto the runway and stopped. The left wing, left aileron, and the elevator sustained substantial damage. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane that would have prevented normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.