- Date
- March 14, 1983, 17:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Waukegan, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46509Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830314007539A
- Case key
- 12109
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot made a hard landing on his first solo flight. The aircraft bounced several times and damaged the nose landing gear. The student had made four full stop landings with an instructor pilot. Then the instructor deplaned for the student to make his first solo flight. During the first landing attempt the acft landing nose gear first which resulted in several bounces before the acft came to rest on the nose with the nose wheel toward the rear. The landing runway was 32 and the wind was 310 degrees at 10 KTS with gusts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46509
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283064
- Airframe hours
- 2,166
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stick And Rudder Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 10, 1982 · 44 hours before
- Airport
- UGN · Waukegan, runway 32, 3,750 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 29 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.