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Event ERA24LA181

2024-04-15 Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States Airport · SYI None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N73605

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172M

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810813

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9E3CB

Registrant of record

JKG LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

The student pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent runway excursion.

Factual narrative

The student pilot was on a solo cross-country flight and was landing at the destination airport. While on final approach, he was high, so he reduced power. Upon touchdown, the airplane bounced several times (airport security camera video showed the airplane bouncing on the runway with increasing severity). The pilot attempted to recover but lost directional control of the airplane. The airplane nosed over after traveling off the right side of the runway resulting in substantial damage to the airplane’s wings and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database Retrieved: 2026-02-12

NTSB Findings

Hierarchical cause / factor breakdown from the FAA bulk avdata database. Each finding tagged C (Cause) or F (Factor).

  • Aircraft-Aircraft oper/perf/capability-Performance/control parameters-Landing flare-Not attained/maintained
  • Personnel issues-Task performance-Use of equip/info-Aircraft control-Pilot

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_2024_ERA24LA181.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (runway excursion). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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