- Date
- March 3, 2001, 08:32 local (15:32 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Junction, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24950Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20010303003469A
- Case key
- 51849
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Probable cause
the student pilot's failure to recover from a bounced landing, which resulted in porpoising and subsequently a nose over.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was practicing touch and go landings. The student said the landing initially appeared normal, but the airplane bounced several times before the nose gear buckled. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted.
Factual narrative
On March 3, 2001, at 0832 mountain standard time, a Cessna 152, N24950, was substantially damaged when it nosed over during landing rollout at Walker Field, Grand Junction, Colorado. The student pilot, the sole occupant in the airplane, was not injured. The airplane was being operated by I Fly Strand Aviation, Inc., under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the solo-instructional local flight that originated approximately 30 minutes before the accident. The pilot had not filed a flight plan.
According to the flight instructor, the student was practicing touch and go landings. The student said the landing appeared "normal," but the airplane "bounced up" following initial touchdown. The student said that the airplane bounced again, started going to the right, and then the "nose buckled." The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The left wing, the engine mount, and the vertical stabilizer were bent.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24950
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280467
- Airframe hours
- 8,626
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- I Fly Strand Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 23, 2000 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- GJT · Grand Junction, CO
- Airport
- GJT · Walker Field Airport, runway 11, 1,050 × 150 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 16
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 33 total · 1 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.78 inHg
- Observed at
- GJT
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 N24950 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.