- Date
- March 31, 1988, 09:20 local (14:20 UTC)
- Place
- San Juan, PR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89224Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880331045429A
- Case key
- 32160
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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 plt completed 5 touch & go's with his instructor before dropping her off for first supervised solo flight. On the first touch & go landing , the acft bounced after touchdown on the main landing gear. The student plt added power, lowered the nose of the acft, after which it touched down on the nose gear causing it to collapse. The acft then slid to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89224
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282680
- Airframe hours
- 6,353
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Caribe Aviation, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 27, 1987 · 14 hours before
- Airport
- SIG · Isla Grande, runway 9, 5,317 × 100 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--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJU, 12 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.