- Date
- January 26, 1988, 16:50 local (Jan 27, 1988, 00:50 UTC)
- Place
- El Toro, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4914HCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880126001359A
- Case key
- 25945
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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 plt was practicing touch-&-go landings & was cleared for an apch behind a C-130. He stated that he noted the touchdown point of the C-130 & planned his apch to remain above the C-130'S flt path. However, just before landing, when the acft was at about 10' AGL, it enctrd wake turbulance from the C-130. Subsequently, the acft landed hard & the nose gear collapsed. Fire erupted, but it was quickly extinguished by fire/rescue personnel. An exam of the skid marks revealed the Cessna had contacted the rwy well short of where most of the C-130 traffic had been landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4914H
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284017
- Airframe hours
- 2,939
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- El Toro Mcas Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 1, 1987 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- NZJ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NZJ · El Toro Mcas, runway 34, 8,000 × 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--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 32 total · 32 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 1 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NZJ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.