- Date
- April 19, 1987, 14:41 local (21:41 UTC)
- Place
- Long Beach, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25331Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870419010189A
- Case key
- 25570
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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
While making practice landings, the student pilot failed to maintain flying speed during the final stages of his second approach. The aircraft stalled inadvertently about 15 feet above the runway and landed hard on the nose wheel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25331
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280599
- Airframe hours
- 3,054
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Rolling Hills Aviation
- Registered owner
- John T. Lin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1987 · 91 hours before
- Departed
- TOA · Torrance, CA
- Airport
- LGB · Long Beach, runway 25R, 6,192 × 200 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 59 total · 59 in this make and model · 26 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LGE
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.