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Cessna 172S N5185U

25 June 2021 · Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 25 June 2021 at about 20:00 local time, a Cessna 172S registered N5185U, operated by Moyer Aviation Inc, was involved in an accident near Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, 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.

The record

Date
at 20:00
Classification
Accident
Location
Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport
Pocono Mountains Muni (MPO)
Coordinates
41.1377, -75.3801
Aircraft
Cessna 172S
Registration
N5185U
Category
Airplane
Year built
2002
Engines
1
Operator
Moyer Aviation Inc
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Personal
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Wilkes-Barre → Unknown
Aircraft damage
Substantial
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
ERA21LA282

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
1 0 0 0 1

Probable cause

The pilot’s loss of aircraft control following a bounced landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot completed the approach to her home airport with a right crosswind correction applied. She explained that the right main landing gear touched down first, the airplane bounced, and the airplane yawed to its left. The pilot said the airplane did not respond to her control inputs to realign with the landing runway, and that she did not abort the landing after the runway excursion because there were trees to the airplane’s immediate front. The airplane came to rest upright in the grass apron on the runway’s left side. The pilot was unhurt, and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall and nose landing gear mount structure. The damage to the structure was consistent with an aerodynamic stall and hard landing on the nose landing gear. A post-accident examination of the airplane by an FAA aviation safety inspector revealed flight control continuity from the flight controls to all flight control surfaces.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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