- Date
- April 18, 1982, 09:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Long Beach, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5513LCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 18, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820418011919A
- Case key
- 71472
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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
During the landing roll, the nose gear collapsed and the plane veered off the runway. The student pilot and a witness stated that the gear collasped after a normal landing. The nosewheel tire had uneven wear characerics. There was substantial damage to the engine mount, fire wall, and ajacent structure behind the fire wall, and the nosewheel steering rods were broken.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5513L
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284325
- Airframe hours
- 803
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Western Skyways
- Registered owner
- Western Skyways
- Departed
- Long Beach, CA
- Destination
- Long Beach, CA
- Airport
- Long Beach, runway 25, 5,000 × 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 13 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 154 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.