- Date
- February 25, 1987, 13:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Tallahassee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89126Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870225035129A
- Case key
- 31860
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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 - inadequateCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Recovery from bounced landing - not performedCause
Analysis
The student plt failed to flare the aircraft, landed hard, bounced 2-3 times, then landed on the nose gear causing it to collapse.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89126
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282640
- Airframe hours
- 4,580
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ace Flying School
- Registered owner
- Michael J. Griffin Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 3, 1987 · 28 hours before
- Airport
- TLH · Tallahassee Municipal, runway 36, 6,070 × 150 ft, asphalt
N89126Registration cancelled Mar 23, 2006 · Cessna 152Airframe modelCessna 152Engine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N89126 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.