- Date
- January 21, 1991, 11:08 local (17:08 UTC)
- Place
- Tulsa, OK
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6374MCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910121001559A
- Case key
- 18067
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Probable cause
The inadequate supervision of the student by the flight instructor. A factor was: the student's failure to flare the aircraft.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The instructor was talking the student through the landing. He told her to flare the airplane and assisted by applying elevator back pressure. He said the student, instead, applied forward pressure. The instructor applied full back pressure but the airplane struck the runway nose low attitude. The student said the airplane began to yaw and she concentrated on aligning the airplane with the runway. She heard the instructor call for more power and felt a forceful nose down pressure. She said she did not think she applied any elevator back pressure. Another flight instrucotr, who was at the end of the runway, watched the airplane approach in an unusually nose low attitude, and said there was no apparent attempt to flare the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6374M
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284697
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Spartan School Of Aeronautics
- Airport
- RVS · Richard Lloyd Jones, Jr., runway 36, 4,799 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,822 total · 1,900 in this make and model · 2,262 as pilot in command · 261 in the last 90 days · 41 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
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