- Date
- June 20, 1986, 06:25 local (13:25 UTC)
- Place
- Prescott, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68916Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860620027039A
- Case key
- 25187
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft landed hard on runway 21. The certified flight instructor indicated that during the landing flare of a full flap landing the student pilot allowed the aircraft to yaw 45 degs off the runway heading. The CFI immediately initiated a go-around by applying 'full power, last notch of flaps up, and climb'. The stall warning came on and the CFI pitched the aircraft nose down. The aircraft impacted the ground three times prior to coming to a full stop. The pilot's operating handbook provides amplified procedures for 'balked landings' (go-around). It states, 'in a balked landing climb, the wing flap setting should be reduced to 20 degs immediately after full power is applied. Upon reaching a safe airspeed, the flaps should be slowly retracted to the full up position'.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68916
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282400
- Airframe hours
- 3,476
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- North Aire Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 9, 1986 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- Airport
- PRC · Ernest A. Love Fld, runway 21, 7,616 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 910 total · 188 in this make and model · 698 as pilot in command · 206 in the last 90 days · 87 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 65 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °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.