Cessna 172S accident near Orangeburg, South Carolina, April 6, 2021

The NTSB's narrative final · quoted from the NTSB record

The student pilot reported that he was conducting a solo cross-country flight and during the first landing, the approach was fast, the airplane porpoised twice, and touched down hard. He added power on the second bounce and the airplane began to fly again but was too far down the runway to land. There was an intersecting runway to the right, so he turned slightly and landed on that runway. Once the nose landing gear contacted the runway it collapsed, the airplane veered to the right, and then came to rest off the right side of the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

The complete narrative as the NTSB published it. The NTSB's docket holds the report as a PDF and any photographs, statements and other documents from the investigation.

Photographs from the investigation 3 pictures from the NTSB's docket, as the NTSB released them

Investigative Photographs Peter Wentz Air Safety Investigator Eastern Region Aviation Photograph 11 – Accident airplane – Fwd left side view. 1 PhotographPhotograph 22 – Accident airplane – firewall damage. 2 PhotographPhotograph 33 – Accident airplane – firewall damage. 3 Photograph

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Other NTSB records under N22467 the same tail number, which may have belonged to a different aircraft at the time