- Date
- April 10, 1982, 10:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Monica, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2588DPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 10, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820410010039A
- Case key
- 72539
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Level off - improperCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Analysis
During landing, the student pilot allowed the aircraft to bounce. After about the third bounce, the nose gear buckled and the aircraft skidded off the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2588D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-79AD38T
- Airframe hours
- 1,263
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- California Aviation
- Registered owner
- California Aviation
- Departed
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Destination
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Airport
- SMO · Santa Monica, runway 21, 4,987 × 150 ft, concrete
N2588DRegistered now · Piper PA-38-112Airframe modelPiper PA-38-112Engine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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
- 22
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SMO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.