- Date
- January 13, 1993, 13:06 local (19:06 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64949Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930113000329A
- Case key
- 18685
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate flare and the improper recovery from a bounced landing
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
During a solo training flight the student pilot allowed the airplane to porpoise. This resulted in the airplane bouncing and on the last touchdown the nose gear collapsed
Factual narrative
On January 13, 1993, at approximately 1306 central standard time, a Cessna 152, N64949, was substantially damaged following loss of control during landing at Bourland Field near Fort Worth, Texas. The student pilot was not injured. No flight plan was filed for the visual meteorological conditions flight. The airplane was owned and operated by Bourland Aviation of Fort Worth, Texas.
The pilot and other witnesses reported that the airplane began to porpoise during the landing. They reported that the airplane bounced at least two times. The last landing resulted in the nose gear collapsing. A review of the pilot's training records indicated he had been signed off for solo flight approximately two flight hours prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64949
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281494
- Airframe hours
- 4,681
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 118 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bourland Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bourland Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 28, 1992 · 71 hours before
- Departed
- 50F
- Destination
- 50F
- Airport
- 50F · Bourland Field, runway 35, 4,150 × 60 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.