- Date
- June 26, 1992, 18:30 local (Jun 27, 1992, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mckinney, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47354Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920626036259A
- Case key
- 18224
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Probable cause
The student pilot misjudged his landing and landed short of the runway. A factor was: lack of total experience on the part of the student pilot.
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
While conducting touch and go landings on his first supervised solo, the student pilot became distracted and landed short of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47354
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283220
- Airframe hours
- 2,890
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Menagerie Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Monarch Air
- Registered owner
- Menagerie Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 28, 1992 · 89 hours before
- Airport
- TKI · Mckinney Municipal, runway 17, 5,200 × 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 13 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
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 N47354 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.