- Date
- July 25, 1993, 15:39 local (22:39 UTC)
- Place
- Oceano, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6331MCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930725025669A
- Case key
- 27986
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Probable cause
The student pilot's misjudging the landing flare altitude and his improper recovery from a bounced landing. Factors relating to this accident are the student pilot's lack of total experience and failure to raise the flaps.
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 airplane bounced on landing with the flaps fully extended. The student pilot added full power and attempted to go around, but failed to retract the flaps. The airplane stalled and crashed in a left wing, nose down attitude. The student pilot reported that a gust of wind precipitated the bounced landing. A commercial pilot witness reported that the winds were straight down the runway at about 8 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6331M
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284675
- Airframe hours
- 4,904
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Lee Brewer, doing business as Central Coast Aviation
- Registered owner
- Troy Hill
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 9, 1993 · 37 hours before
- Departed
- SMX · Santa Maria, CA
- Airport
- L52 · Oceano, runway 29, 2,335 × 50 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 290° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.