- Date
- November 28, 1992, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Orleans, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4948PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921128048179A
- Case key
- 18624
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Probable cause
Hard landing due to the pilot's inadequate flare. A factor was the blocked rudder.
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
A 17 hour student pilot was scheduled for one hour of solo landing and takeoff practice on the afternoon of his initial solo flight. On his first touch and go landing the airplane landed hard and bounced twice before control was reestablished by the pilot. Immediately following the takeoff roll, the airplane began to yaw to the left. After becoming airborne, the airplane was observed to drop the left wing and initiate a turn towards a parallel runway. The pilot stated that he reduced power in an attempt to regain control, landing across the parallel runway. The airplane nosed over coming to rest in the inverted position. The rudder was found stuck to the left as result of the damage incurred by the nose gear during the hard landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4948P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284855
- Airframe hours
- 4,896
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Reldan Inc., doing business as Air Reldan Inc.
- Registered owner
- Air Reldan Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 10, 1992 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- NEW
- Destination
- NEW
- Airport
- NEW · Lakefront Airport, runway 36, 3,700 × 75 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17 total · 17 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NEW, 1 nm away
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 N4948P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.