- Date
- May 9, 1984, 10:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chugiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N93952Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840509017919A
- Case key
- 4289
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Hard landing
Flare - misjudgedCause
TotalCause
Flight controls - improper use ofCause
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Analysis
The student plt was observed to land nose wheel first, bounce to a considerable altitude, nose over and contact the runway on the nose wheel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93952
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285576
- Airframe hours
- 850
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviation Network
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 12, 1983 · 4 hours before
- Airport
- Z15 · Birchwood, runway 1, 4,000 × 80 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 37 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.