- Date
- April 14, 1984, 14:38 local (20:38 UTC)
- Place
- Tulsa, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24708Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21309
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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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.
Undershoot
Proper descent rate - not maintainedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Go-around - not performed
Loss of control - on ground/water
Recovery from bounced landing - not performed
Analysis
The student was on his 3rd solo flt, practicing touch-&-go landings. According to witnesses, the acft initially touched down short of the rwy, then bounced onto the prepared surface. The acft porpoised several times. The plt made no attempt to go around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24708
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280332
- Airframe hours
- 4,904
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Spartan School Of Aeronautics
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- RVS · Richard Lloyd Jones Jr., runway 36, 3,006 × 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 28 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 15 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RVS