- Date
- September 22, 1987, 09:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Monica, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5366KCessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870922058679A
- Case key
- 25700
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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, on his first supervised solo flight, executed two full stop landings without incident. On the next landing, the student pilot stated that the aircraft apparently caught a gust of wind and ballooned. He indicated that he over-corrected and the aircraft nosed down into the runway resulting in substantial damage to it.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5366K
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274084
- Airframe hours
- 3,670
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Flyers
- Registered owner
- Ate Of New York, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · September 12, 1987 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Airport
- SMO · Santa Monica Muni, runway 3, 4,987 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 12 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.