- Date
- October 28, 2005, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Titusville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49005Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20051028028439A
- Case key
- 62761
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing resulting in substantial damage to the airplane.
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 stated that upon landing, the airplane bounced twice, and on the second bounce, the airplane hit hard and the nose gear broke. The instructor stated that while observing his student land, the airplane bounced twice and the nose gear collapsed. No mechanical failures or malfunctions existed to the airplane or any of its systems.
Factual narrative
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Aircraft
- Registration
- N49005
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281095
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Comair Aviation Academy Inc
- Registered owner
- BG Chipmunks, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KTIX · Titusville, FL
- Destination
- KTIX · Titusville, FL
- Airport
- KTIX · Space Coast Regional Airport, runway 36
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 19 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.