- Date
- November 21, 1982, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mckinney, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6409MCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 21, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821121059619A
- Case key
- 71634
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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.
Analysis
The student pilot on her 2nd solo flight failed to flare during landing. A hard landing and improper recovery from bounced landing followed. The aircraft left the runway and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6409M
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284713
- Airframe hours
- 975
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mckinney Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Mckinney Aviation Inc.
- Departed
- TKI · Mckinney, TX
- Destination
- TKI · Mckinney, TX
- Airport
- TKI · Mckinney Muni., runway 35, 4,000 × 0 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 17 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 45 °F
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 N6409M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.