- Date
- December 4, 1988, 11:58 local (18:58 UTC)
- Place
- Watkins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4782BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881204053909A
- Case key
- 17646
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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 plt was practicing touch and go landings during an unsupervised solo flight. Runway 26 was in use, with winds reported as 320 deg at 5 KTS. At the first landing, the acft touched down nose first, thirty feet left of the center line. The acft bounced back into the air and touched down the second time, nose first. The nose wheel collapsed and the acft departed the runway to the left into soft dirt. The acft nosed over and came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4782B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283632
- Airframe hours
- 5,496
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Line, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Michael H Rider & Jay Hickox
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 23, 1988 · 789 hours before
- Departed
- 1W1
- Destination
- 1W1
- Airport
- 1W1 · Front Range, runway 26, 8,000 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 42 total · 42 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.