- Date
- May 28, 1988, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Collins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67446Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880528018819A
- Case key
- 17471
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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 was returning from a cross country training flight. At touchdown the acft bounced and began to porpoise. The nose gear collapsed and the plane nosed down. The FBO reported calm winds and dry rnwy conditions.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67446
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281838
- Airframe hours
- 4,280
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jerry C. Richardson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 21, 1988 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- 3V5 · Fort Collins, CO
- Destination
- 3V5
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 3V5 · Fort Collins, runway 11, 4,700 × 50 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.