- Date
- April 24, 1989, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49177Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890424009749A
- Case key
- 17702
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare which resulted in a hard landing & separation of the nose landing wheel. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of total experience.
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 performing her first supervised solo flt. The plt was practicing touch and go landings on rwy 16, a 5,349 x 200 ft asphalt rwy, with calm winds. The CFI witness reported that during touchdown on the plt's second approach, the acft made a hard landing and bounced back into the air. The plt made a go around, and at lift off, the nose wheel departed the acft. The student flew around the airport for 20 mins prior to landing on rwy 21, an 8,250 x 150 foot asphalt runway. At touchdown, the nose gear fork scraped along the runway for 200 ft and the plane made a slow left turn. As the nose gear left the rwy, the acft nosed over and came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49177
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283434
- Airframe hours
- 3,016
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Spectra Sonics
- Registered owner
- Spectra Sonics, Inc
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 2, 1989 · 38 hours before
- Departed
- OGD
- Destination
- OGD
- Airport
- OGD · Ogden, runway 16, 5,349 × 200 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 66
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 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.
Other investigations on N49177 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.