- Date
- February 20, 1982, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24725Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820220002569A
- Case key
- 72707
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 on her first supervised solo flight. During the second landing the aircraft bounced and while attempting to recover the pilot first added power then cut it. The aircraft dropped down on its nose and the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24725
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280341
- Airframe hours
- 1,482
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sunshine Flight Inc.
- Departed
- SPG · St. Petersburg, FL
- Destination
- SPG · St. Petersburg, FL
- Airport
- SPG · Albert Whitted, runway 36, 2,800 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 14 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 158 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.