- Date
- July 13, 1989, 16:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Grosse Ile, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24378Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890713022249A
- Case key
- 14381
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Probable cause
The student pilot's not correcting the porpoise on the first landing. A factor in the accident is the lack of experience of the student pilot.
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.
Analysis
The 25-hour student pilot was attempting his third landing on his first solo when he experienced a hard landing. The aircraft bounced and when it returned to the runway, landed hard and the nosewheel collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24378
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280244
- Airframe hours
- 3,014
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul Johnston Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 3, 1989 · 88 hours before
- Airport
- 2G5 · Grosse Ile Municipal, runway 4, 4,979 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 48
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 9 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DTW, 11 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 N24378 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.