- Date
- January 26, 1989, 16:27 local (21:27 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48799Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890126001229A
- Case key
- 32388
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to flare for landing and improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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 failed to flare the acft for landing. After touchdown the acft bounced, touched down, bounced again, then drifted off the left side of the rwy. The acft then touched down on the grass & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48799
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280970
- Airframe hours
- 18,880
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Airline Aviation Academy
- Registered owner
- Gulf Leasing, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 18, 1989 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- OCF · Ocala, FL
- Airport
- ORL · Orlando Executive, runway 7, 5,998 × 150 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 51 total · 51 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 51 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.