- Date
- October 10, 1983, 15:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Elyria, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N94500Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831010054199A
- Case key
- 12477
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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.
Hard landing
Touch-and-go - performedFactor
Proper descent rate - not maintainedFactor
Aborted landing - performedFactor
Go-around - initiatedFactor
Flight controls - improper use ofCause
Analysis
During final the acft ballooned. The plt added power for a go-around but the acft settled to the rwy nose gear first. Gear, prop & firewall damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94500
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285692
- Airframe hours
- 354
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Elyria Aviation
- Registered owner
- George Gousios
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 1, 1983 · 42 hours before
- Airport
- 1G1 · Elyria, runway 9, 3,060 × 120 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--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 53 total · 53 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft unknown
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE, 12 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.
Other investigations on N94500 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.