- Date
- October 31, 1985, 08:10 local (13:10 UTC)
- Place
- Pahokee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N15BXCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851031055509A
- Case key
- 31543
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - excessiveFactor
Flare - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Hard landing
Analysis
The plt stated the acft bounced four times on landing. During the fourth bounce the acft impacted the rwy hard causing the nose tire to blow out and the nose gear to bend.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15BX
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285418
- Airframe hours
- 758
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- William C. Weist
- Registered owner
- Bendix Avionics Empl. Flying
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1985 · 208 hours before
- Departed
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PHK · Palm Beach County Glades, runway 17, 4,620 × 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 33 total · 23 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 12 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.