- Date
- December 5, 1999, 09:40 local (14:40 UTC)
- Place
- Venice, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49328Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 30, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19991205035099A
- Case key
- 47872
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare resulting in a hard landing and a collapsed nose landing gear.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated he had successfully completed two touch and go and a full stop landing to the same runway. On this particular landing, his flight control inputs caused a higher than normal flare and a hard, simultaneous touchdown of the nose and right main landing gear, collapsing the nose gear, and causing a runway strike of the right wingtip, the propeller spinner and propeller.
Factual narrative
On December 5,1999, about 0940 eastern standard time, a Cessna 152, N49328, registered to a private individual, operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, sustained substantial damage during a hard landing at Venice Municipal Airport, Venice, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated from the same airport about 5 minutes before the accident.
According to the pilot, he had previously completed two touch-and-go landings and one full-stop landing to the same runway. On this particular landing, he stated he was slipping the aircraft to correct for a left crosswind, and his perception was that the main landing gear touched down hard almost simultaneously with nose gear touch down, followed by a right roll that caused a propeller and right wing tip strike of the runway. The airplane sustained a collapsed nose landing gear, damage to the right wing spar, propeller, and spinner.
According to an FAA inspector, the pilot stated to him that he misjudged the crosswind, resulting in his applying incorrect crosswind controls resulting in the hard landing. The hard landing caused deformation of the right wing spar and landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49328
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283448
- Airframe hours
- 6,084
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Benjamin Z. Haak
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 2, 1999 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- VNC · Venice, FL
- Airport
- VNC · Venice Municipal, runway 13, 4,999 × 150 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 890 total · 160 in this make and model · 808 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRQ, 24 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.