- Date
- March 13, 1987, 16:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bolivar, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25503Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870313007799A
- Case key
- 7388
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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.
Analysis
The student plt reported that he flared excessively during touchdown while practicing a touch & go landing, causing the airplane to balloon. The airplane subsequently touched down again and headed toward the left side of the rwy. The student plt stated that he attempted to straighten out the airplane using right rudder, and brake it to a stop. However, the airplane ran off the left side of the rwy into soft dirt where it nosed over inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25503
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280699
- Airframe hours
- 1,655
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bolivar Aviation, doing business as School Of Aeronautics
- Registered owner
- Ben Carr Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Airport
- M08 · Bolivar-Hardeman, runway 36, 4,000 × 75 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 55 total · 52 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 52 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.