- Date
- March 15, 1991, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eloy, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5496BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910315017909A
- Case key
- 27139
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing and the inadvertent entry into a porpoise condition.
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
According to the student's statement, she landed normally on the main gear and lowered the nose wheel to the pavement. The pilot said she then pulled back on the control yoke and the aircraft ballooned back into the air. The aircraft began to porpoise and eventually collapsed the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5496B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283886
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Double Eagle Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TUC · Tucson, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- E60 · Eloy, runway 2, 3,900 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 56 total · 27 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 60 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.