- Date
- January 3, 1983, 15:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Van Nuys, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49750Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830103000079A
- Case key
- 23414
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
Flare - misjudgedCause
Lack of total experience in type operationCause
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Remedial action - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - inadequateCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - separationFactor
Analysis
The student pilot was flying his second solo flight. On the first attempted touch and go he made a hard landing, bounced, porpoised and collapsed the nose gear. Fire erupted from the engine area. Examination revealed that on contact with the runway the nose gear assembly separated rearward and the fuel line fitting had separated at the carburetor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49750
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283502
- Airframe hours
- 577
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Yehiam Konski, doing business as Konski Aviation
- Registered owner
- Henri Pipper
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 14, 1982 · 77 hours before
- Destination
- VNY
- Airport
- VNY · Van Nuys, runway 16, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 13 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VNY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.