- Date
- May 30, 1996, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Troy, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49459Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 25, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960530022749A
- Case key
- 10264
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane while recovering from a bounced landing. Factors associated with the accident were the misjudged landing flare and the raised taxiway edge which the airplane contacted.
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 reported the airplane bounced on landing. While airborne it turned to the left and touched back down heading off the left side of the runway. The airplane continued off the runway into a grass area prior to contacting a 4' raised berm at a perpendicular taxiway. Upon contacting the berm, the nose gear collapsed and the airplane raised up onto its nose. The right wing contacted the terrain as the airplane settled back onto its main landing gear.
Factual narrative
On May 30, 1996, at 1800 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 152, N49459, was substantially damaged while landing at the Big Beaver Airport, Troy, Michigan. The airplane bounced on landing, traveled off the runway, and contacted a taxiway berm where the nose gear collapsed. The solo instructional flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions. The student pilot was not injured. The last departure point for the 14 CFR Part 91 cross country flight was Lansing, Michigan, at 1700 eastern daylight time.
The student pilot reported that after touching down he heard a "clunk" from the right main gear. The airplane became airborne again (3 to 5 feet agl) and turned to the left. The pilot stated the airplane touched down again, heading toward the left side of the runway. He reported that when the nose wheel touched down, it began to vibrate. The airplane traveled off the left side of the runway and through a grass area before the nose gear contacted the 4" berm of a perpendicular taxiway.
Upon contacting the berm the nose gear collapsed and the airplane tipped forward onto its nose. The airplane then fell to the right with the right wing contacting the ground. The airplane then settled back on the main gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49459
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281285
- Airframe hours
- 5,945
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Big Beaver Airport, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 5, 1996 · 58 hours before
- Departed
- LAN · Lansing, MI
- Destination
- 3BB
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 3BB · Big Beaver, runway 9, 2,400 × 40 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 79 total · 79 in this make and model · 23 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PTK, 17 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.