# NTSB LAX07CA085: Cessna 152, N271RG, Long Beach, CA, February 9, 2007

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: February 9, 2007, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place: Long Beach, CA
- Coordinates: 33.817779, -118.151664
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.8178&lon=-118.1517&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report May 29, 2007
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- Parties: Federal Aviation Administration
- NTSB case key (mKey): 65295
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX07CA085
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/65295/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX07CA085

## Probable cause

the student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Hard landing, landing - flare/touchdown
  - recovery from bounced landing - improper, pilot in command (cause)
  - terrain condition - runway

## 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 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Cessna 152
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 15282221
- Engines: 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.

- Student pilot; age 30; injuries: none; 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

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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