19881210067909I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 152 · Bedford, MA · December 10, 1988

Date
December 10, 1988 · 08:55 local
Place
Bedford, MA
Airport
Laurence G Hanscom Fld
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N49221
Reported as
Cessna 152
Reported engine
Lycoming O235L2C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
33 total33 in this make and model10 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Student landed hard. Aircraft bounced and went up on its nose. Nose gear collapsed. Prop hit runway.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT LANDED HARD. AIRCRAFT BOUNCED AND WENT UP ON ITS NOSE. NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. PROP HIT RUNWAY.