- Date
- October 5, 1989, 14:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Columbus, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4875HCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891005038899A
- Case key
- 14572
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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
During a hard landing on a solo training flight, the nose gear collapsed & the aircraft nosed over. The student believed he flared too high, which allowed the aircraft to touchdown hard & bounce.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4875H
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283995
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jerry R. Hoffman
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 2I4 · Bolton Field, runway 22, 5,200 × 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 69 total · 69 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 14 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- 2I4
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.