- Date
- July 1, 1990, 15:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Upland, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89756Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900701023129A
- Case key
- 26854
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Probable cause
The student pilot not flaring for the touchdown.
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.
Nose gear collapsed
Flare - not performedCause
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - inadvertentCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Analysis
During the student pilot's third solo landing he failed to flare for touchdown. The aircraft porpoised and impacted the runway on the nose landing gear. The impact collapsed the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89756
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282854
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cableair, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- CCB
- Airport
- CCB · Cable, runway 24, 3,785 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 33 total · 33 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ONT, 6 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.