- Date
- August 18, 1983, 10:54 local (14:54 UTC)
- Place
- Sarasota, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N213SPPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830818042929A
- Case key
- 30928
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
The student plt was on her lst solo x-country & was landing after completing the 2nd leg of the flt. She stated that she flared high, the acft bounced twice, then the nose gear failed. An eng mount, the firewall & the propeller were also damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N213SP
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-78A0541
- Airframe hours
- 1,181
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gulf Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Dolphin Aviation
- Departed
- FMY · Fort Myers, FL
- Destination
- SRQ · Sarasota, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SRQ · Sarastota-Bradenton, runway 4, 5,006 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 39 in this make and model · 7 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRQ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.