- Date
- June 9, 1992, 19:00 local (Jun 10, 1992, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- St. Charles, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N152AJCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920609019089A
- Case key
- 15460
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's delay in initiating a go-around and improper recovery from the student's bounced landing. Factor(s) which contributed to the accident was the student pilot overshooting the approach.
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 instructor and dual student were practicing soft-field and crosswind takeoffs and landings. The student pilot came in high and fast on the second approach to landing. The flight instructor stated '...as we touched down the aircraft hit a bump which caused us to bounce 6 to 8 feet into the air.' The instructor took over the controls and aborted the landing. He stated: 'in attempting to gain the last few feet of altitude for clearance the aircraft stalled and mushed into the hangar coming to rest on the tail of the aircraft parked inside.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N152AJ
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283988
- Airframe hours
- 3,907
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- St. Charles Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Klutenkamper, Brian L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 9, 1992 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- 3SQ · St. Charles Municipal, runway 18, 2,200 × 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
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 530 total · 172 in this make and model · 474 as pilot in command · 139 in the last 90 days · 68 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 14,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STL, 9 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.