- Date
- March 14, 2024, 10:38 local (14:38 UTC)
- Place
- Pembroke Pines, FL · 10 NM West of North Perry Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6300QCessna 152
- Defining event
- Enroute: Birdstrike
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240314002499A
- Case key
- 194064
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
An inflight collision with a bird while approaching the destination airport.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot was on the last leg of a solo, cross-country flight. About 10 miles west of his destination airport, he encountered a flock of birds. While attempting to evade the flock, a large bird struck the right wing leading edge, resulting in substantial damage to the airframe. The pilot was able to continue to his destination and land uneventfully with the bird lodged in the wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6300Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285225
- Built
- 1981
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Flight Training, doing business as Wayman Aviation Academy
- Registered owner
- Delaware Trust Co Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- IMM · Immoklee, FL
- Destination
- HWO · Pembroke Pines, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 20
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 96 total · 95 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- KHWO, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KHWO 141453Z 10SM FEW028 26/19 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP203 T02560194 51014
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 21, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 MB in all.
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 N6300Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.