CEN09CA387

NTSB accident investigation · Cessna 152 · Oklahoma City, OK · June 24, 2009

Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal report
Date
June 24, 2009, 14:31 local (19:31 UTC)
Place
Oklahoma City, OK
Injuries
1 uninjured
Damage
Substantial damage
Phase of flight
Landing
Aircraft
N67797Cessna 152
Defining event
Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
Weather
Visual (VMC) · Day
Status
Completed · report September 30, 2009
Report
Approved by Office Director
NTSB office
Central Region
FAA report
20090624010889A
Case key
74133

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Probable cause

The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing.

Findings · 2

NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.

Performance/control parametersAircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability · Not attained/maintainedCessna 152: 13 casesAll aircraft: 1,269 casesProbable cause
Use of equip/info: aircraft controlPersonnel issues › Task performance · PilotCessna 152: 115 casesAll aircraft: 9,295 casesProbable cause

Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.

Analysis

The student pilot was practicing a slip when she misjudged the airplane's approach speed to the runway, landed long, and bounced. The student pilot did not attempt to abort the landing and applied braking when the airplane again touched down on the runway. The airplane subsequently went off the end of the 5,001-foot-long asphalt runway, through a fence and onto a road, which resulted in substantial damage to the engine mount beams.

Factual narrative

The student pilot was practicing a slip when she misjudged the airplane's approach speed to the runway, landed long, and bounced. The student pilot did not attempt to abort the landing and applied braking when the airplane again touched down on the runway. The airplane subsequently went off the end of the 5,001-foot-long asphalt runway, through a fence and onto a road, which resulted in substantial damage to the engine mount beams.

Aircraft

Registration
N67797
Reported as
Cessna 152
Category
Airplane
Serial number
15282026
Engine
Lycoming 0-235 SERIES, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
Damage
Substantial damage
Flight
Instructional · Part 91
Operator
Harris Aircraft Leasing Co
Registered owner
Harris Aircraft Leasing Co
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Normal
Departed
HSD · Oklahoma City, OK
Destination
HSD · Oklahoma City, OK
Flight plan
Unknown
Airport
HSD · Sundance Airpark, runway 17

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
Student pilot
Age
21
Certificate
Student
Medical
Class 2
Flight hours
45 total · 45 in this make and model

Weather

Conditions
Visual (VMC) · Day

Docket · 1

The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 27, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 93 KB in all.

FAA reports on this event · 1

The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.

Other investigations on N67797 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.