- Date
- April 13, 1987, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Marine City, MI
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4857BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870413009249A
- Case key
- 13753
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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
Recovery from bounced landing - not attainedCause
Flare - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Landing gear,nose gear - failure,total
Nose over
Analysis
During a solo training flight, the student pilot landed too fast. The aircraft porpoised, the nose wheel collapsed and the plane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4857B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283676
- Airframe hours
- 2,379
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235 SERIES, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Marine City Aviation
- Registered owner
- Marine City Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 22, 1987 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- MI
- Airport
- 76G · Marine City, runway 22, 2,250 × 42 ft, asphalt
N4857BRegistration cancelled Jun 13, 2014 · Cessna 152Airframe modelCessna 152Engine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22 total · 22 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
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 N4857B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.