- Date
- May 7, 2008, 09:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Glendale, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4912HCessna 152
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20080507835549A
- Case key
- 67957
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudged landing flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot flared early, and bounced the airplane back into the air during the landing. He attempted to execute a go-around but the airplane landed hard on the nose gear, collapsing it.
Factual narrative
On May 7, 2008, at 0945 mountain standard time, a Cessna 152, N4912H, bounced during landing and collapsed the nose gear at Glendale Municipal Airport, Glendale, Arizona. Air Safety Flight Academy operated the airplane under the provisions of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The solo student pilot was not injured, and the airplane was substantially damaged. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a company flight plan had been filed. The flight originated at Glendale Municipal Airport about 0800.
The student pilot reported in the Pilot/Operator Accident Report, that on his fourth touch-and-go landing he flared early, and bounced the airplane back into the air during the landing. He attempted to execute a go-around but the airplane landed hard on the nose gear, collapsing it.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4912H
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284016
- Engine
- Textron Lycoming O-235, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Safety Flight Academy
- Registered owner
- Christiansen Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KGEU · Glendale, AZ
- Destination
- KGEU
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- KGEU · Glendale, runway 19, 7,150 × 100 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 27 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KGEU
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 N4912H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.