- Date
- June 3, 1990, 15:49 local (20:49 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N714TTCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900603018059A
- Case key
- 23136
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Probable cause
The student pilot misjudged the flare to land.
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
Flare - misjudged
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - runway light
Analysis
The student pilot made a hard landing, due to a high sink rate, which resulted in loss of directional control. The airplane departed the runway, struck a taxi light which resulted in the collapse of the nose gear, it then nosed over, coming to rest in the grass adjacent to runway 34L.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714TT
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279426
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Acme School Of Aeronautics
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 29, 1990
- Departed
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- FTW · Heacham Field, runway 34, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 36 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.