- Date
- July 8, 1982, 08:05 local (15:05 UTC)
- Place
- Prescott, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68940Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 8, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820708026319A
- Case key
- 72305
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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.
Analysis
The student pilot was on his second supervised solo flight. During his first landing on this flight, the aircraft touched down on the nosewheel first. It then began to porpoise. As the aircraft continued to bounce, the nose gear collapsed. According to the student, he had not been taught how to recover from a bounced landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68940
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282409
- Airframe hours
- 139
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Southwest Airmotive
- Registered owner
- D & E Leasing Company
- Departed
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- Destination
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- Airport
- PRC · Ernest A. Love, runway 3, 7,618 × 150 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 28 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Temperature
- 160 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PRC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.