- Date
- October 23, 2021, 14:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Wadsworth, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N94400Cessna 152
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211023017709A
- Case key
- 104175
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control during the final approach resulting in a bounced landing.
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 student pilot reported he was conducting a solo traffic pattern flight and was on final approach for landing from his first traffic pattern when he lost control of the airplane at 50 ft, rounded out and impacted the runway on the nose wheel. The airplane subsequently bounced and impacted the runway again collapsing the nose wheel and allowing the left wing to impact in the grass next to the runway. The airplane then skidded off the left side of the runway and came to rest in the grassy area. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the top inboard left wing. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The instructor pilot reported that he and the student pilot had completed four successful landings prior to the instructor getting out of the airplane for the student pilot’s solo traffic pattern flight. He reported that the student pilot’s approach was stable, but upon landing the airplane seemed to be out of control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94400
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285663
- Built
- 1982
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 115 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skypark Inc
- Registered owner
- Skypark Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 15G · Wadsworth, OH
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 15G · Skypark Airport, runway 21, 2,410 × 37 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 65 total · 65 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- KCAK, 15 nm away
- METAR
- KCAK 231851Z 25007KT 10SM FEW027 FEW040 OVC055 12/05 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP165 T01170050
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 18, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.0 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.