- Date
- November 13, 1990, 17:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Kokomo, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N757MTCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 8, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901113051159A
- Case key
- 14957
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, resulting inadvertent porpoising.
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
Solo student pilot reported he was slightly fast at touchdown. The airplane lifted off and the pilot put it back on the runway. Propoise oscillations continued until, on the fourth touchdown, the nose gear contacted the ground and collapsed. The pilot stated he might have prevented the accident by not overcontrolling or by aborting the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757MT
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279855
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Beene, Charles W
- Registered owner
- Charles W Beene
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 813 · Glenndale, runway 18, 1,756 × 110 ft, grass/turf
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 14 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °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 N757MT · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.