- Date
- May 11, 1991, 08:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pontiac, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69101Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910511015359A
- Case key
- 15061
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Probable cause
Recovery from a bounced landing was improper by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were lack of recent experience by the 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 student pilot said that while attemping to land, hit hard, then bounced. She said that she must have used forward pressure on the yoke, and when the aircraft came down again the nose gear collapsed. The aircraft slid off the runway nose down. This was her first solo flight in over 30 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69101
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282481
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kitze Avaition, Inc.
- Airport
- PTK · Pontiac-Oakland, runway 27, 3,251 × 75 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 46 total · 46 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- PTK, 1 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.