- Date
- September 1, 1991, 08:38 local (15:38 UTC)
- Place
- Palo Alto, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89022Cessna C-152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 27346
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Probable cause
Improper recovery from a bounced landing by the student pilot and the delayed remedial action of the instructor pilot. Contributing to this accident was the student pilot's failure to maintain the proper descent rate which resulted in a bounced landing and the certified instructor pilot's inadequate supervision during the landing.
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 landed hard and bounced the airplane back into the air about 20 feet. The instructor took over the controls but was unable to gain control of the airplane before it stalled and struck the runway with the left wing and tail. The airplane then departed the left side of the runway, striking a runway light. There were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane before the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89022
- Reported as
- Cessna C-152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 82599
- Airframe hours
- 4,163
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Main, Stanley G.
- Registered owner
- Main, Stanley G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 27, 1991 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- SQL · San Carlos, CA
- Destination
- PAO · Palo Alto, CA
- Airport
- PAO · Palo Alto, runway 3, 2,500 × 65 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
- Age
- 32
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,062 total · 1,450 in this make and model · 1,923 as pilot in command · 179 in the last 90 days · 65 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
Other investigations on N89022 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.