- Date
- August 21, 1993, 07:20 local (14:20 UTC)
- Place
- Glendale, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6596PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930821052109A
- Case key
- 28457
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare and recovery from the ensuing bounced 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 was conducting his first supervised solo. On the second landing the student pilot improperly flared the airplane and sustained a hard landing. The student pilot overcorrected from the bounced landing and the airplane porpoised three times subsequently collapsing the nose landing gear.
Factual narrative
On Saturday, August 21, 1993, at 0720 hours mountain standard time, a Cessna 152, N6596P, porpoised on landing and collapsed the nose gear on runway 19 at Glendale Municipal Airport, Glendale, Arizona. The noncertificated student pilot was conducting his first local visual flight rules solo instructional flight. The airplane, registered to and operated by Sawyer Aviation, Phoenix, Arizona, sustained substantial damage. The noncertificated student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and the reported surface winds were calm. The flight originated at Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona, at about 0705 hours.
The pilot reported in the Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report, NTSB Form 6120.1/2, that he was completing his second of three planned supervised solo touch and go takeoffs and landings. The approach was normal, but the airplane ballooned during the flare. The student pilot said that he "over-corrected" for the ballooning and the airplane porpoised three times when the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6596P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285036
- Airframe hours
- 6,031
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sawyer Aviation
- Registered owner
- Sawyer Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 5, 1993 · 15 hours before
- Airport
- GEU · Glendale Municipal, runway 19, 5,350 × 75 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 18 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GEU
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6596P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.