- Date
- September 27, 1992, 16:16 local (21:16 UTC)
- Place
- Cape Girardeau, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69225Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920927044269A
- Case key
- 15559
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to recover from the 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
The pilot flared late for landing. The airplane bounced at touchdown, bounced again 3 times, and finally landed heavily on the nose gear, which collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69225
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282570
- Airframe hours
- 5,928
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2L, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bolivar Aviation, doing business as Bolivar Aircraft Sales
- Registered owner
- Bolivar Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 30, 1992 · 93 hours before
- Departed
- CGI
- Airport
- CGI · Cape Girardeau Municipal, runway 2, 3,996 × 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22 total · 22 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CGI, 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.