- Date
- February 2, 1992, 11:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Shelbyville, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6299QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920202038739A
- Case key
- 8556
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Probable cause
The improper level off by the student pilot because of misjudging the airplane's altitude above the runway. A factor was her diverted attention by an aircraft behind her in the traffic pattern.
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 pilot was landing at the first stop of a long cross-country. During the landing approach her attention was diverted by another airplane in the landing pattern. She stated that she shortened the landing pattern, was a little fast on the approach, & used 10 degrees vice 20 degrees of flaps. When the rwy was made, she retarded the throttle, & as she was about to flare for landing, the airplane landed hard. The nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6299Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285224
- Airframe hours
- 5,038
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- C & G Aircraft Sales, Inc.
- Registered owner
- C & G Aircraft Sales, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 16, 1991 · 58 hours before
- Departed
- CHA · Chattonooga, TN
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SYI · Bomar Field, runway 36, 5,003 × 100 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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 35 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 30 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.