- Date
- October 30, 2014, 16:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hinckley, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N165JACessna 162
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 5, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- FAA report
- 20141030019679A
- Case key
- 90349
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Probable cause
The student pilot's relaxing of elevator back pressure during the landing roll that induced a porpoise, loss of control, and collapsing of the nose wheel.
Findings · 3
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.
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 airplane touched down, became airborne, touched down again nose first, bounced, and became airborne again. On the third touchdown, the nose wheel collapsed and the airplane skidded to a halt on the runway's centerline. This was the student pilot's first solo.
Factual narrative
According to the operator's accident report, this was the student pilot's first solo flight. The landing approach was "long and stable" and the airplane touched down. During the landing roll, the airplane became airborne. The nose wheel touched down and the airplane bounced back in the air. On the third touchdown, the nose wheel collapsed and the airplane skidded to a halt on the runway's centerline.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N165JA
- Reported as
- Cessna 162
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16200007
- Built
- 2010
- Airframe hours
- 780
- Engine
- Continental O-200-D, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- J.A. Flight Services, LLC
- Registered owner
- J.A. Flight Services, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 5, 2014 · 52 hours before
- Departed
- 0C2 · Hinckley, IL
- Destination
- 0C2 · Hinckley, IL
- Airport
- 0C2 · Hinckley, runway 27, 2,640 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 72 total · 66 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- AAR, 10 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 13, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 MB 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.