Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 2850; Flight Crew Type 500
Other / Unknown
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Event / Encounter Object; Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
My student rented the Cessna 172 and was in the left seat practicing 'touch and goes'. (My student has over 100 hours of training and has soloed.) He was on his third landing 'touch and go' of this lesson and the stall horn came on. At that time I told him to lower the nose of the plane. When he did; the plane went sharply to the right. I said 'my controls'; but the plane bounced and hit the ground to the right of the runway in the grass/dirt before my student relinquished control of the plane. Upon the bounce/landing; I took control of the plane from the student and begin the proper protocol in a bounced landing -- which is a 'go around' procedure. As I gave it power and strenuously attempted to get the plane back under control and to the left; I realized we were at a 30-45 degree angle to the runway. I could not get the plane to go back to the right. To avoid a possible catastrophic 'in air' collision with buildings; I immediately reduced the power. There is an embankment to the left side of the runway. The plane went down the embankment; all the while I am trying to gain control and steer it away from any objects on the ground. I was able to successfully steer it away from other objects while still trying to get it under control; but at the end the last five feet of the right wing hit a hangar and spun the front of the airplane into the hangar door. The plane came to rest. The student and I exited the plane. We both stated that we had no injuries at the scene. Paramedics arrived and checked out both myself and the student and there were no abnormalities in vitals or injuries observed. Additionally; no one was in close proximity to this occurrence and no one was injured on the ground.
C172 Instructor describes a loss of control incident after a bounced landing by his student during which the instructor took control. A runway excursion occurs resulting in damage to the aircraft after contact with a hangar.