- Date
- June 22, 1982, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Denton, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25096Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820622024099A
- Case key
- 70454
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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.
Hard landing
Level off - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Analysis
The student pilot was a foreign national that was on his first supervised solo flight. The objective of the flight was to make a touch-and-go and then land. He made a high approach that ended in a bounced landing. The aircraft porpoised and landed on the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25096
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-80A0021
- Airframe hours
- 1,939
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- K. Balachandran
- Registered owner
- Derek R. White
- Departed
- Fort Worth, TX
- Destination
- Denton, TX
- Airport
- DTO · Denton, runway 17, 5,000 × 0 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, 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
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Temperature
- 190 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.