- Date
- February 9, 2007, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Long Beach, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N271RGCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 29, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 65295
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Probable cause
the student pilot's 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
The airplane was damaged during a hard landing. The pilot was in the traffic pattern practicing landings on runway 25L. He flared and the airplane touched down, then bounced and landed on the nose wheel. The pilot said there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures.
Factual narrative
On February 9, 2007, about 1130 Pacific standard time, a Cessna 152, N271RG, landed hard at Long Beach, California. Rainbow Air Academy, Inc., was operating the airplane under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The student pilot was not injured; the airplane sustained substantial damage. The local instructional flight departed Long Beach at an unknown time. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed.
The pilot submitted a written statement. He was in the traffic pattern practicing landings on runway 25L. He flared and the airplane touched down and bounced, then came down on the nose wheel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N271RG
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282221
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rainbow Air Academy, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Departed
- LGB · Long Beach, CA
- Airport
- LGB · Long Beach, runway 25L, 5,423 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 66 total · 66 in this make and model · 66 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- LGB