- Date
- August 29, 1988, 07:19 local (14:19 UTC)
- Place
- Goodyear, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46972Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880829037849A
- Case key
- 26092
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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 was on her second supervised solo flight. She had completed one touch and go landing and was attempting a second when the accident occurred. The pilot failed to flare the airplane at the proper time and the airplane collided with the terrain - nosewheel first. The foreign student plt did not file an acc report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46972
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283153
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Westwind Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 1, 1988
- Airport
- GYR · Goodyear, runway 3, 8,500 × 150 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 18 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.