- Date
- April 15, 1989, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Addison, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4870BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890415008059A
- Case key
- 22855
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Probable cause
The inadequate aircraft handling by the student pilot, where she allowed the airplane to start to porpoise, and then did not correct it.
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 was making a landing during a solo instructional flight. The FAA aircraft accident preliminary notice stated the following: 'on landing, the aircraft porpoised approximately three times and nose gear collapsed.' On the pilot/operator aircraft accident report, the pilot stated: 'nosewheel collapsed on landing.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4870B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283685
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Addison Flight Trng Center
- Registered owner
- Dobransky Ent. Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DUA · Durant, OK
- Airport
- ADS · Addison
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 60 total · 60 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ADS
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 N4870B · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.